During its two-year history; the cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland fought the Confederates in some of the most important actions of the Civil War; including Stones River; Chickamauga; the Tullahoma Campaign; the pursuit of Joseph Wheeler in October 1863 and the East Tennessee Campaign. They battled with legendary Confederate cavalry units commanded by Nathan Bedford Forrest; John Hunt Morgan; Wheeler and others. By October 1864; the cavalry grew from eight regiments to four divisions--composed of units from Pennsylvania; Michigan; Wisconsin; Ohio; Indiana; Iowa; Kentucky and Tennessee--before participating in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign; where the Union cavalry suffered 30 percent casualties. This history of the Army of the Cumberland's cavalry units analyzes their success and failures and re-evaluates their alleged poor service during the Atlanta Campaign.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy CustomerThank you!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Biographical Handbook for Students of the Brown Water WarBy A. A. NofiA summary of the review on StrategyPage.Com'Prof. Smith (Tusculum College); author of a number of works on the Civil War and naval history; gives us a biographical guide to many of the actors who had some role in riverine and littoral campaigns on the Mississippi and the western Gulf. The list is impressive; from the two presidents on down to extremely obscure steam boat captains and even the occasional common soldier or sailor. The individual entries vary in length in part due to the importance of the person in question; but often also because some surprisingly interesting people have left a remarkably poor paper trail; many of those listed emerge briefly from the mists of history; do their bit; often ably and even spectacularly; only to vanish again with the coming of peace. Given the nature of such a work; some people will always be left out; notably and unfortunately absent are Charles Pierre Chouteau; who managed his family’s large riverine fleet during the war; relief worker “Mother†Bickerdyke; and nearly all women. However; the many obscure people found here still makes this a valuable reference for anyone working the Civil War.'For the full review; see StrategyPage.Co
