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    Kentucky Cavaliers In Dixie; Reminiscences Of A Confederate Cavalryman [Illustrated Edition]
    Kentucky Cavaliers In Dixie; Reminiscences Of A Confederate Cavalryman [Illustrated Edition]
    Kentucky Cavaliers In Dixie; Reminiscences Of A Confederate Cavalryman [Illustrated Edition]
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    Kentucky Cavaliers In Dixie; Reminiscences Of A Confederate Cavalryman [Illustrated Edition]

    By George Dallas Mosgrove

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    Includes more than 20 Illustrations of the author’s unit and commanders.
    “George Dallas Mosgrove was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1844, and enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment as a private on September 10, 1862. Through service as a clerk and orderly in both regimental and brigade headquarters, he became familiar with the environment of officers and command. His eyewitness account illuminates the western theater of the Civil War in Kentucky, east Tennessee, and southwest Virginia.

    Mosgrove admits to a romanticism influenced by Sir Walter Scott in his description of the superiority of the officers and "some of the boys" in his regiment. At the same time, his narrative includes unadorned passages that depict with stark honesty the sordidness of war and man’s inhumanity. Mosgrove provides firsthand information about military actions at Blue Springs, Saltville, and elsewhere, and relates details of his participation in John Hunt Morgan’s Last Kentucky Raid and the skirmish where Morgan was killed. Mosgrove’s highly entertaining account is a perceptive and informative retelling of the truth as he saw it.”-Print Ed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGolden Springs Publishing
    Release dateAug 15, 2014
    ISBN9781782898504
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      Kentucky Cavaliers In Dixie; Reminiscences Of A Confederate Cavalryman [Illustrated Edition] - George Dallas Mosgrove

      CHAPTER I.

      IN WHICH THE AUTHOR BECOMES A CONFEDERATE CAVALRYMAN—THE MARCH FROM THE OHIO RIVER TO OWENTON—ORGANIZATION—FROM OWENTON TO CAMP BUCKNER—GENERAL BRAGG’S CAMPAIGN—BATTLE OF PERRYVILLE—RETREAT FROM KENTUCKY.

      "And there was tumult in the air,

      The fife’s shrill note, the drum’s loud beat;

      And through the wide land everywhere,

      The answering tread of hurrying feet."

      SIMULTANEOUSLY, September 5, 1862, General Lee invaded Maryland and General Bragg marched into Kentucky. There were exciting times in the Northland and in the Southland, and more especially in the border States. In Kentucky thousands of young men were eager to enlist under the starry cross of Dixie The coming of Bragg opened the way. In advance of his army recruiting officers appeared here and there throughout the State, none of whom were more daring and successful than the noted trio, Giltner, Pryor and Parker, who came into Kentucky with the intention of recruiting a regiment. They operated in the border counties, along the Ohio River from Louisville to Cincinnati, and in counties adjoining them not lying immediately on the river. The result of the enterprise was the organization known as the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment. The recruits remained quietly at their homes until there was a marshaling of clans for purposes of organization. They were compelled to be very discreet in their preliminary movements, as there was ever present the menacing danger of being captured by the Federals upon information given by unfriendly citizens.

      Having secretly provided themselves with arms, horses and other equipments, they quietly assembled at the designated rendezvous, and, without noteworthy adventure, concentrated at Owenton, Owen County, Ky., at which place four companies were organized, H. L. Giltner, M. T. Pryor, W. B. Ray and J. T. Alexander being selected as captains. Subsequently Captain John G. Scott, Captain R. O. Gathright and Captain D. L. Revill reported with parts of companies, which were afterward filled, and Captain Thomas E. Moore brought in another company. From Owenton the march was resumed, the column being constantly augmented by additional recruits. Passing through Stamping Ground, and on to Paris, in Bourbon County, the little army went into camp for a day or two at the fairgrounds, and then moved into a more permanent camp near by, in a beautiful woodland carpeted with luxuriant bluegrass, owned by the wealthy and hospitable Buckner family, in honor of whom the encampment was called Camp Buckner. Being liberally supplied by the generous and wealthy citizens with well-cooked provisions, and visited by the fair ladies of that most beautiful and hospitable of all lands, and in turn the gay soldier boys being received as welcome guests in the elegant manors, the halcyon days at Camp Buckner savored little of the rough, hard life afterward experienced. The march from the Ohio River to Camp Buckner had been a continuous ovation. All along the route men cheered and fair women smiled and waved handkerchiefs. An exhilarating scene was witnessed at the Oxford Female Academy, where the young girls rushed out upon the green, wildly cheering and waving encouragement. The most notable demonstrations, however, were at Georgetown and Paris, where the ladies thronged the sidewalks, doorways and windows, waving handkerchiefs and small Confederate flags. This so enthused the boys that, after giving the regulation Confederate yell, they began

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