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Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion - Volume 2: Breathed's and McGregor's Batteries (Hardcover)
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Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion - Volume 2: Breathed's and McGregor's Batteries (Hardcover)
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Until recently, it has been difficult for anyone with an interest
in the Army of Northern Virginia's horse artillery, which served
under legendary cavalry commander J. E. B. Stuart, to envision what
the men of the battalion endured. With the publication in 2002 of
Robert Trout's seminal book, Galloping Thunder: The Stuart Horse
Artillery Battalion, the endeavors of the unit were rescued from
obscurity. In Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion,
Trout provides readers with complete versions of three important
primary documents, written by soldiers of the battalion. Lt. Lewis
T. Nunnelee's history of Moorman's Battery is based on a
seven-volume diary that Nunnelee kept during the war and features
near-daily entries of the battery's actions. His extraordinary
attention to detail offers readers an opportunity to follow the
movements of the battery virtually hoofstep by hoofstep through the
campaigns in which he participated. The "History of Hart's
Battery," as told by Maj. James F. Hart, Dr. Levi C. Stephens,
Louis Sherfesee, and Charles H. Schwing, is, as Trout puts it, "a
cannon of a different caliber." It recounts in broad terms the
battery's history from its inception before the war to its
surrender as the last horse artillery in the field. The authors
offer rare glimpses into the development of tactics learned from
the "school of the battlefield," Finally, Louis Sherfesee's
"Reminiscences of A Color-Bearer" fleshes out many of the stories
in the history that he cowrote with Hart and his fellow soldiers.
Filled with short vignettes, it offers a behind-the-scenes look at
the battery in action. Together, these rich documents provide
welcome insights into the day-to-dayexperiences of the often
overlooked Confederate horse artillery, which played an important
role in cementing Stuart's reputation as one of the most
outstanding cavalry commanders in the Civil War.
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