About This Book
The author recounts enlisting as a youth in a cavalry regiment of the Army of the Potomac and serving under General Sheridan, offering episodic memoirs of training, camp routine, and combat. Chapters mix practical detail about drills, bugle calls, horse procurement, and photographic sittings with personal anecdotes of family visits, underage enlistment complications, and measures to safeguard comforts from home. Battles, reviews by officials, and the impact of wartime proclamations and addresses are described through the perspectives of young troopers, balancing vivid daily-life scenes with reflections on leadership, morale, and military procedure.
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