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Charles A. (Charles Albert) Curtis
1835–1907
A Union Army officer turned storyteller, he wrote with a soldier’s eye for danger, distance, and hard-earned detail. His best-known work draws on his own experiences in the American West and on the frontier.
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Captured by the Navajos
by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Curtis
About the author
Born in Hallowell, Maine, in 1835, Charles A. Curtis was educated at Bowdoin College and went on to serve as an officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. Later records connected with his papers and publications describe him not only as a military man but also as a writer of stories and articles.
Curtis is best remembered for Captured by the Navajos (1904), a frontier adventure shaped by his experiences in the postwar West. His name is also associated with memoir material later published as Ordered West: The Civil War Exploits of Charles A. Curtis, which reflects his firsthand account of army life.
He died in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1907. Today, his writing is of interest to readers who enjoy firsthand military reminiscence, nineteenth-century adventure, and vivid accounts of the American frontier.