The Story of My Campaign: The Civil War Memoir of Captain Francis T. Moore, Second Illinois Calvary
- ISBN-10
- 1501757954
- ISBN-13
- 9781501757952
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 326
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-09-01
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Author
- Francis T. Moore
Description
"The story of my campaign ... [is the] Civil War memoir of Captain Francis T. Moore ... [who] began the war as a private in Company L of the Second Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and was soon promoted to lieutenant and then captain of his company. He spent most of the war fighting guerrillas in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He fought at the battle of Belmont, Kentucky, in 1861 and raided Mississippi with General Benjamin Grierson in 1864. He also battled Confederate leaders, such as Nathan Bedford Forrest and Leonidas Polk. His unflinching chronicle of small-scale and irregular warfare, combined with his intimate account of military life makes his memoir ... historically valuable"--Jacket.
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