Hollande

1960 · 78753 — Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press 1960. Reprint edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xvii 595 1 pages Maps. Introduction by Cecil Fletcher Holland. Editor's Notes. Index. Previous owner's mailing label inside front cover. This is one of the Civil War Centennial series. Basil Wilson Duke May 28 1838 - September 16 1916 was a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War. His most noted service in the war was as second-in-command for his brother-in-law John Hunt Morgan; Duke would later write a popular account of Morgan's most famous raid: 1863's Morgan's Raid. He took over Morgan's command after Morgan was shot by Union soldiers in 1864. At the end of the war Duke was among Confederate President Jefferson Davis's bodyguards after his flight from Richmond Virginia through the Carolinas. Duke's lasting impact was as a historian and communicator of the Confederate experience. As a historian he helped to found the Filson Club Historical Society and started the preserving of the Shiloh battlefield. He wrote numerous books and magazine articles. This substantial well known and highly regarded work presents itself to the reader as a history of a renowned unit of Confederate Cavalry. The narrative is made the more relevant interesting and indeed entertaining because its author rode within its ranks. So the book also works admirably as a first hand account of the experiences of a cavalier of the South at war. John Hunt Morgan was a Kentuckian and a regular soldier who was drawn reluctantly into war against the federal government. He raised the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry regiment and as its Colonel fought at Shiloh but it was as a raider that Morgan's Cavalry achieved most fame and for some notoriety. 'Morgan's Raid' which took place in July 1863 was a remarkable feat of cavalry command. With lightning manoeuvres Morgan broke past the Union lines and led nearly 2500 Confederate cavalrymen deep into Kentucky Indiana and Ohio making this action the deepest incursion into the north of uniformed Confederate troops in the war. Indiana University Press hardcover