Service with the 4th and 11th Tennessee Cavalry, Confederate, in the Civil War

Description

They Rode with Forrest and Wheeler
A Chronicle of Five Tennessee Brothers' Service
in the Confederate Western Cavalry
by John E. Fisher
McFarland & Co. - 1995     (first edition)
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Condition : Hardcover - Near Fine condition.
Has a small gift inscription on the front end paper,
otherwise clean inside. Seems unread.
310 pages, indexed.
With 11 maps and 4 illustrations (portraits
)
These older McFarland titles were printed in hardcover.
Today, McFarland only prints in softcover editions.
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The 4
th
TN Cavalry “Murray’s Cavalry”, CSA, was organized in August, 1862, using Spiller's Tennessee Cavalry Battalion as its nucleus. On January 23, 1863, it disbanded. Four companies transferred to Baxter Smith's 8th Cavalry, four to the 22nd Infantry Regiment, and two to the 1st Confederate Cavalry Regiment.
The 11
th
TN Cavalry "Holman's Cavalry", CSA, was organized in February, 1863, by consolidating Holman's and part of Douglass' Tennessee Cavalry Battalion plus other companies. It was assigned to Forrest's, Humes', J.B. Biffle's and Dibrell's Brigade. The regiment took an active part in the conflicts at Brentwood and Chickamauga, then was involved in the Atlanta Campaign and Hood's operations in Tennessee. During January, 1865, it was consolidated with the 10th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment and in May contained 30 officers and 280 men. Serving in Alabama, it surrendered with the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. The field officers were Colonels James H. Edmondson and Daniel W. Holman, Lieutenant Colonel Jacob T. Martin, and Major Chatham Coffee.
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"Thomas Burr Fisher was one of five brothers who served, between them, in the Fourth and Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry Regiments, Confederate States Army, with remarkable devotion. Using Fisher’s two memoirs (one untitled, written in 1915, and “Life on the Common Level,” written in 1921), his correspondence, records, and other material, along with the wartime diary of his brother William Fisher and extensive original research, the history of the Western Cavalry is recounted here."
“Fisher has done an admirable amount of research”—Military Images
“includes asides about the plight of the common soldier, race and class issues, thumbnail sketches of various officers and men, and a lengthy discussion of his grandfather’s postwar theological views”—Civil War Regiments
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