HISTORY OF FOURTEENTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY and The Brigades to Which It Belonged (Illinois Regimental History)

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SUBTITLED: Compiled from Manuscript History by Sanford, West, and Featherson, and from Notes of Comrades; Carefully Compared with and Corrected by Government published Official Reports and Statistics Furnished by Union and Confederate Officers. With Biographies of Officers and Rolls of Men, and Embellished with Portraits. With clear, mylar wrapper. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 347 pgs, portrait plates, unit roster. Original red cloth, gilt title on cover and spine. Presentation from former unit member, Capt. Wm. Moore of Co. L to Ralph S. Moore.CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Edges and spine ends rubbed. Interior hinges tender but intact; title page reattached, else clean and solid. Scarce Illinois regimental, not often offered for sale. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: From the Preface: A regimental and brigade history of Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, including the services in brigade of the Fifth Indiana Cavalry, the Sixty-fifth Indiana Mounted Infantry, the Eighth Michigan Cavalry, McLaughlin's Ohio Squadron, the Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry, and the Sixth Indiana Cavalry. The Fourteenth Cavalry was recruited and organized in the fall and winter of 1862, with headquarters at Peoria. It participated in pursuing Morgan during his raid, and later had engagements at Cumberland Gap, Dandridge, and the Atlanta Campaign where they joined Stoneman on his raid to Macon Georgia in July 1864, suffering significant causalities. Requiring re-fitting, the regiment returned to Kentucky and was at Franklin and the Battle for Nashville. the main column of the Fourteenth, during its term of service, marched over 10,000 miles. It was mustered out July 31, 1865. REFERENCES: DORN IL #68; NEVINS I pg. 155 Presented in diary form, this history gives a very revealing account of army life and campaigns. MULLINS/REED #122. N° de ref. del artículo 1022039

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