THE SEVENTH PENNSYLVANIA VETERAN VOLUNTEER CAVALRY, Its Record, Reminiscences and Roster with an Appendix (Pennsylvania Regimental History)

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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, iv, 169, 60, 143, (3) pgs, illustration, portraits, unit roster. Gilt design and tile on red cloth with gilt titled spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Mercantile Library Co stamped on front and rear covers, spine is dull and darkened with label removed. Edges and corners rugged and worn. Interior has library bookplate and perforating stamp on title page and on the portrait plate pages. Pocket on rear endpaper. Else pages are clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 7th, also know as the "80th Regiment" was organized in December 1861 and was mustered out in August 1865. The regiment served in the Army of the Ohio and Army of the Cumberland; and was after December 1862, part of the famed Minty's Saber Brigade. Their engagements included Battle of Perryville; Battle of Stones River; Tullahoma Campaign; Battle of Hoover's Gap; Battle of Chickamauga; the Atlanta Campaign; the Battle of Resaca and the Siege of Atlanta. They also participated in Kilpatrick s Raid when 4000 Union cavalry in total traveled south of Atlanta behind enemy lines to destroy the railroad at Lovejoy Station. REFERENCES: DORN PA 62; NEVINS I pg 158: "Written by the regimental colonel, this history is too much based on printed sources to be of primary value." FOX 300: "The Seventh distinguished itself by a gallant charge through the streets of Shelbyville, Tenn., on June 27, 1863". N° de ref. del artículo 0622045

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