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Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion: Volume 2: Breathed’s and McGregor’s Batteries (Voices Of The Civil War)

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Until recently, it has been difficult for anyone with an interest in the Army of Northern Virginia’s horse artillery, which served under legendary cavalry commander J. E. B. Stuart, to envision what the men of the battalion endured. With the publication in 2002 of Robert Trout’s seminal book, Galloping Thunder: The Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion, the endeavors of the unit were rescued from obscurity. In Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion, Trout provides readers with complete versions of three important primary documents, written by soldiers of the battalion. Lt. Lewis T. Nunnelee’s history of Moorman’s Battery is based on a seven-volume diary that Nunnelee kept right through the war and features near-day by day entries of the battery’s actions. His atypical attention to detail offers readers an opportunity to follow the movements of the battery virtually hoofstep by hoofstep through the campaigns in which he participated. The “History of Hart’s Battery,” as told by Maj. James F. Hart, Dr. Levi C. Stephens, Louis Sherfesee, and Charles H. Schwing, is, as Trout puts it, “a cannon of a different caliber.” It recounts in broad terms the battery’s history from its inception before the war to its give up as the last horse artillery in the field. The authors offer rare glimpses into the development of tactics learned from the “school of the battlefield,” In spite of everything, Louis Sherfesee’s “Reminiscences of A Color-Bearer” fleshes out among the stories in the history that he cowrote with Hart and his fellow soldiers. Filled with short vignettes, it offers a at the back of-the-scenes look at the battery in action. Together, these rich documents provide welcome insights into the day-to-dayexperiences of the incessantly overlooked Confederate horse artillery, which played a very powerful role in cementing Stuart’s reputation as one of the outstanding cavalry commanders in the Civil War.

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