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Missing in Action: The Apache Campaign, 1885-1886
Retired Physician Shows His Writing Chops at Age 93!
Missing in Action is the sequel to Reconstruction: Heal or Kill. By 1885, the U.S. Army subdued the plains Indians, but Geronimo’s Apaches remain on the loose. They raid, loot, and commit murders along the border of Arizona and Mexico. The Indians disappear as if by magic. The soldiers can’t find the Apaches, let alone defeat them.
Dr. John Raffensperger grew up in a small town on the Illinois River. He wasn’t an athlete but was an omnivorous reader and spent time roaming the woods and canoeing. He graduated from the University of Illinois Medical School in 1953. After learning basic medicine and surgery, how to set broken bones and to deliver babies during his internship at Cook County Hospital, he spent two years as a medical officer on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. His experiences there are memorialized in “The Ship’s Cat,” a story in his medical essays book.
Missing in Action is the sequel to Reconstruction: Heal or Kill. By 1885, the U.S. Army subdued the plains Indians, but Geronimo’s Apaches remain on the loose. They raid, loot, and commit murders along the border of Arizona and Mexico. The Indians disappear as if by magic. The soldiers can’t find the Apaches, let alone defeat them.
Dr. John Raffensperger grew up in a small town on the Illinois River. He wasn’t an athlete but was an omnivorous reader and spent time roaming the woods and canoeing. He graduated from the University of Illinois Medical School in 1953. After learning basic medicine and surgery, how to set broken bones and to deliver babies during his internship at Cook County Hospital, he spent two years as a medical officer on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. His experiences there are memorialized in “The Ship’s Cat,” a story in his medical essays book.
190 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 14, 2021
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