A Union Cavalryman (Annotated)

A respected and efficient cavalry colonel (later brigadier general) under General Judson Kilpatrick, he wrote:

"I never fired but four shots at the enemy during the war and feel thankful to believe I never killed anybody."

But he came near being killed plenty of times himself while commanding in battle. He helped William Tecumseh Sherman cut a swath across Georgia and the Carolinas and saw the last shots fired in the American Civil War. He lived to write one of the most interesting and compel...