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At Custer's Side - The Civil War Writings of James Harvey Kidd (Hardcover)
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At Custer's Side - The Civil War Writings of James Harvey Kidd (Hardcover)
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During the Civil War, James Harvey Kidd fought along side the
General George Armstrong Custer as a member of the 6th Michigan
Cavalry, the Wolverines. A student at the University of Michigan at
the outbreak of the ear, Kidd enlisted in 1862 and was elected
captain, commanding a company of Wolverines. Within two years he
was promoted to colonel and took command of the regiment. In the
fall of 1864, he succeeded Custer as commander of the Michigan
Cavalry Brigade and eventually received a brevet to brigadier
general of volunteers. After the war, Kidd served as brigadier
general in the Michigan National Guard and, upon returning to his
civilian career as a newspaperman, published two newspapers in his
hometown of Ionia, Michigan. He also wrote a memoir of his service
Personal Reminiscences of a Cavalryman in Custer's Michigan
Brigade, a classic of Civil War literature. Eric J. Wittenberg
presents many of this newspaperman?s captivating writings in their
original form in At Custer's Side: The Civil War Writings of James
Harvey Kidd, Kidd wrote eloquently about his Civil War experiences,
especially his service with Customer. His speech given at the
dedication of the Customer monument in Monroe, Michigan, is
particularly important, as it provides readers with one of the
first revisionist views of the tragedy that befell Custer at Little
Big Horn. Much like Wittenberg's first book of Kidd's writings, One
of Custer's Wolverines: The Civil War Letters of Brevet Brigadier
General James H. Kidd, 6th Michigan Cavalry (Kent State University
Press, 2000), this latest collection offers insightful, articulate,
and entertaining commentary on what it ws like to serve in the
Civil War and with "the boy general".
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