Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie; Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman [Illustrated Edition]

• Autore: Mosgrove George Dallas
• Pubblicazione: TBD : , : Pickle Partners Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.7
• Soggetto geografico: Confederate States of America; Kentucky
• Nota di contenuto: Title page -- INTRODUCTION -- DEDICATION. -- PREFACE. -- CHAPTER I. -- IN WHICH THE AUTHOR BECOMES A CONFEDERATE CAVALRYMAN-THE MARCH FROM THE OHIO RIVER TO OWENTON-ORGANIZATION-FROM OWENTON TO CAMP BUCKNER-GENERAL BRAGG’S CAMPAIGN-BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE-RETREAT FROM KENTUCKY. -- CHAPTER II. -- ORGANIZATION OF THE FOURTH KENTUCKY CAVALRY-THE MUSTER ROLLS. -- FIELD AND STAFF. -- COMPANY A. -- COMPANY B. -- COMPANY C. -- COMPANY D. -- COMPANY E. -- COMPANY F. -- COMPANY G. -- COMPANY H. -- COMPANY I. -- COMPANY K. -- CHAPTER III. - GENERAL HUMPHREY MARSHALL. -- GENERAL WILLIAM PRESTON. -- CHAPTER IV. - COLONEL HENRY LITER GILTNER. -- CHAPTER V. - ADJUTANT-GENERAL EDWARD O. GUERRANT. -- CAPTAIN PEYTON MILLER -- CHAPTER VI. - LIEUTENANT-COLONEL MOSES TANDY PRYOR. -- MRS. BARBARA A. PRYOR. -- FOURTH KENTUCKY REGIMENT. -- FIRST BATTALION MOUNTED RIFLES. -- SECOND BATTALION MOUNTED RIFLES. -- TENTH KENTUCKY MOUNTED INFANTRY.
• Sommario/riassunto: Includes more than 20 Illustrations of the author's unit and commanders."George Dallas Mosgrove was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1844, and enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment as a private on September 10, 1862. Through service as a clerk and orderly in both regimental and brigade headquarters, he became familiar with the environment of officers and command. His eyewitness account illuminates the western theater of the Civil War in Kentucky, east Tennessee, and southwest Virginia. Mosgrove admits to a romanticism influenced by Sir Walter Scott in his description of the superiority of the officers and "some of the boys" in his regiment. At the same time, his narrative includes unadorned passages that depict with stark honesty the sordidness of war and man's inhumanity. Mosgrove provides firsthand information about military actions at Blue Springs, Saltville, and elsewhere, and relates details of his participation in John Hunt Morgan's Last Kentucky Raid and the skirmish where Morgan was killed. Mosgrove's highly entertaining account is a perceptive and informative retelling of the truth as he saw it."-Print Ed.
• Titolo autorizzato: Kentucky Cavaliers In Dixie; Reminiscences Of A Confederate Cavalryman
• ISBN: 9781782898504; 1782898506
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910163323403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II