Edwin K. Meyers, 1886

Vale, Joseph G. Minty and the Cavalry. A History of Cavalry Campaigns in the Western Armies. Harrisburg, Pa.: Edwin K. Meyers, 1886. Captain, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry General D. S. Stanley, Life and Military Services, xv-xxxi CHAPTER I. Introduction, 1-6 CHAPTER II. History of the Fourth United States (Regular) Cavalry from the Outbreak of the Rebellion to the Organization of the First Brigade, Second Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, ..... 7-13 CHAPTER III. The Fourth Cavalry Continued — Operations against Columbus, Kentucky— Battle of Fort Donaldson — Battle of Pittsburg Landing, 14-20 CHAPTER IV. Fourth Cavalry Continued — Operations During the Siege of Corinth — Pursuit of the Rebel Forces— Destruction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad — General Granger's Report— Operations in Middle Tennessee and Kentucky — Attached to Minty's Brigade, . 21- 29 CHAPTER V. September, 1861, to March, 1862. The Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry — Organization — Departure for Louisville, Kentucky — In Camp at Jeffersonville, Indiana — Off to the Front — In Camp at Bardstown — The Military Situation — March to Bowling Green — Description — March to Nashville, Tennessee— In Camp at Nashville — Incidents, 30-48 CHAPTER VI. From March 22 to May 6, 1862. First Battalion at Columbus, Second at Nashville, and Third at Murfreesboro' — Rebel Rising in Nashville —Fight at Pulaski — Fight at Shelbyville — Battle of Lebanon — Incidents, &c., 49- 65 CHAPTER VII. May 7 TO November 15, 1862. Scouting and Picketing — Negley's Advance on Chattanooga — Sweden's Cove — Forrest Captures Murfreesboro' — Dumont's Advance to Pikeville — Captain Davis Captured — Readyville — Forrest's Demonstration against Nashville — Stampede of Company K — Nelson's Advance on Spai'ta — Capture of McMinnville — Movements of Rebel and Union Armies — Battle of Galatin — Comments — Bragg Invades Kentucky — Bear Wallow- Perryville — Siege of Nashville— Battle of Lavergne, 65-95 CHAPTER VIII The Fourth Michigan Cavalry. Organization — Arrival at Louisville, Kentucky — Pursuit of Bragg — Battle of Stanford, Kentucky — Defeat of Morgan at Lebanon — Capture of Captain Abeel — Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, .... 96-104 CHAPTER IX. December, 1862, to January 31, 1863. Military Situation — Cavalry Organization — Advance on Murfreesboro' — Battle of Lavergne — Battle of Stone's River — Battle at Jefferson Bridge — Fight Near Lawrence — Fight Near 1 Overalls Creek — Battle Near Wilkinson Pike — Great Cavalry Battle on December 31 — General Stanley's Charge Against the Rebel Left — Minty Defeats Wheeler — Advance to Wilkinson Crossroad — Retreat of Bragg — Pursuit of the Enemy--Fight on Manchester Pike — Battle at Beech Grove — In Camp at Murfreesboro — Officers and Men Honorably Mentioned — Incidents, .... 105-123 CHAPTER X. February to March 14, 1863. Rebel Advance on Donaldson — Movements to Intercept — Fight at Rover and Unionville — General Jeff. 0. Davis' Advance Toward Donaldson, 124-143 CHAPTER XI March 15 to June 21, 1863. Expedition to Milton — Fight on Shelbyville Pike — Sharpened Sabers — Fourth United States at Franklin — Scout to Liberty — Battle of Snow Hill — Capture of McMinnville — Fight at Middleton — Expedition Against Morgan at Alexandria, 144-167 CHAPTER XII. June 23 to July 30, 1863. Advance of the Army on Tullahoma — Battle of Shelbyville — Great Charge of Captain C. C. Davis — Battle Near Scull Creek Bridge — Incidents — Fight on Manchester Road — Capture of Tullahoma — Gallant Conduct of the Second Brigade at Elk River — Some Lesser Foes, 16S- 192 CHAPTER XIII. July 6, 1863 to August 17, 1863. The Army Concentrated Along the Tennessee River — Topography of the Country — Minty Scouting on the Right — Moves to the Left — McMinnville Occupied — Incidents — Fight with Dibrell at Sparta, 193-204 CHAPTER XIV, from August 17 to September 3, 1863. Battle of Sparta — Occupation of Pikeville — Walden's Ridge — Incidents — Fight Near Smith's Cross-roads — Loyal Uprising — Picketing the Tennessee River — Fight Near Ringgold, Georgia — Advance on Lee and Gordon's Mills — Fighting in the Pea Vine Valley — Information of Rebel Movements and Intentions Furnished — Camped at Reed's Bridge, on the Chickamauga 205-220 CHAPTER XV. From September 17 to October 1, 1863. Battle of Chickamauga — Description of the Field — Position of the Armies — Minty's Battle of Reed's Bridge — Frustrates Bragg's Plan— Repulse of the Enemy— Battle of the 19th — The Right Wing Broken on the 20th — Minty's Fight on 21st at Mission Mills — Battle at Rossville Gap on 23d — Guarding the Tennessee River from 24th to October 1st 221-242 CHAPTER XVI. From October 4 to November 17, 1863. Wheeler's Raid — Fight at Cottonport — Battle Near McMinnville — Battle Near Farmington — Minty Under Arrest — Defeat of Wheeler at Sugar Creek, Alabama — Colonel Low in Com- mand — First and Third Brigades Consolidated — First Brigade Dismounted — Re-enlist as Veterans — Fourth United States in North Mississippi — Battle of West Point, Alabama, 243- 259 2 CHAPTER XVII. November, 1863, to April, 1864. The Fourth Michigan with Second Brigade — In Front of Chattanooga — Major Gray's Battalion — Lieutenant Hudson's Detachment — Head-quarters at Huntsville — Colonel Minty Acquitted, After Trial, Fully Vindicated — Resumes Command — Campaign Reviewed— Summary of Results — Major Lawton's Expedition Up the Red River—The "Horse Marines," 260-271 CHAPTER XVIII. 1864-From April 2 to May 27. Opening of the Campaign — Military Situation — Organization of Cavalry — March to Villinou, Georgia — Battle of Aumuchee Creek— Rome — The "Sand-flies" — Battle of Kingston — Ten-mile Gallop- Capture of Gillem's Bridge—" Carrying Rails," . 272-291 CHAPTER XIX. 1864 — From May 19 to June 9. Advance on Right Wing — Fight Near Burnt Hickory — Battle of Dallas — In the Trenches — Battle on Villa Rica Road — In Rear of Rebel Army — Occupation of Cartersville — Allatoona Pass — Guarding the Left Flank of the Army— Battle of Big Shanty, . 292-307 CHAPTER XX. From June 10 to July 17, 1864. Advance of the Army on Kennesaw — Minty's Fight at McAfee's Cross-roads — Cavalry Formation and Tactics in Battle Described — Rebel Commands Enumerated — Battle of Noonday Creek — Rebel Account of Same — Incidents of — Account of, by Governor Cox — List of Officers and Soldiers Distinguished in — Retreat of the Rebel Army— Capture of Roswell — Battle with the "Bees," 308-324 CHAPTER XXI. 1864 — From July 17 to August 17. Capture of the Augusta Railroad — Decatur — Covington Raid — Battle of Flat Rock Shoals — Movements of the Army — Battles in Front of Atlanta —"In the Trenches" — Capturing the Rebel Rifle Pits— Under Fire of Rebel Forts— Camp Shelled— Rebel Sortie — Rebels Driven into Atlanta — Incidents during the Siege of Atlanta 325-336 CHAPTER XXII. 1864 — From August 18 to August 24. Kilpatrick Raid — Fight at Red Bank— Fairfield — Battle at Flint River — Capture of Jonesboro' — Destruction of the Macon Railroad — Battle of Lovejoy Station — Great Saber Charge of Minty's Brigade — Colonel Long's Battle on the McDonough Road — Crossing the Cotton River — Return to Camp, 337-365 CHAPTER XXIII. From October 1 to 31, 1864. General Eli Long in Command of Division — Sketch of General Long — Capture of Atlanta — Battle of Jonesboro' — Lovejoy — Review of Campaign — Hood's Advance on Allatoona — Cavalry in Pursuit — Battle of Rome, Georgia — Great Charge of Lieutenant Fisk — Rebel Battery Captured — Division Dismounted — Close of the Campaign, 366-383 3 CHAPTER XXIV. 1864. The Dismounted Men — Colonel Sipes in Command at Columbia, Tennessee — Building Stockades — Doing Garrison Duty — Guarding Railroads — Forrest's Raid — Wheeler's Raid — Battle and Capture of Athens, Alabama — Hood's Advance — Forrest Captures Sulphur Springs — Surrender of Lieutenant Nixon — Gallant Defense of Captain Long — Fearless Conduct of Corporal Charles Beckford, Fourth Michigan Cavalry, 384-398 CHAPTER XXV. The Second Brigade— 1862-63. Organization of the Fourth Ohio — Capture of Bowling Green — Surrender of Nashville — Wild Chase after Morgan — Capture of Huntsville, Alabama — Reports of Colonel Kennett, First Ohio Cavalry — Lebanon, Kentucky — Fort Donaldson — Pittsburg Landing — Corinth, Mississippi — Third Ohio Cavalry — Advance on Savannah — Fight at Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, 399-414 CHAPTER XXVI. From December 28, 1864, to February 15, 1865. The Division Moves from Louisville, Kentucky — General Eli Long in Command — Camp at Bardstown — Murder of Dr. Sherk and Captain Robert McCormick — March to Nashville — To Columbia — To Gravelly Springs, Alabama —In Camp — Incidents 415-422 CHAPTER XXVII. From March 1 to April 21, 1865. Military Situation — Department of the Mississippi — Union Forces — Wilson's Cavalry Organized — General Canby's Army at Mobile — Rebel Armies in the Department — Forrest in Supreme Command — Numbers and Dispositions of Rebel Armies — Wilson Moves against Selma, Alabama — Captures Monto Vello — Battle of Plantersville — Grand Tactics of Wilson — Great Battle of Selma — Captures the City by Assault — Capture of Mobile by General Canby — Wilson Captures Columbus, Georgia — Battle of Macon — Surrender of General Howell Cobb — Capture of Macon, Georgia, 423-443 CHAPTER XXVIII. Capture of Jefferson Davis, 444-473 CHAPTER XXIX. Summary of the Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry, 474-491 CHAPTER XXX. Conclusion 492-500 CHAPTER XXXI. Appendix. Roster Fourth Michigan, : 500-512 Roster Seventh Pennsylvania:, 512-531 Roster Fourth United States, 531-538 Roster Ninth Pennsylvania, 538-550 4 .

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