One of Morgan's Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry

John Marion Porter

University Press of Kentucky, Feb 2, 2011 - Reference - 300 pages

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Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Preface: 9
• 1 To the Military I Submitted Myself: 11
• 2 You Have Crowned Yourselves with Glory: 23
• 3 It Was Literally a Leap in the Dark: 39
• 4 We Struck Out on Our Own Responsibility: 51
• 5 A Perfect Tornado of Shots Was Fired at Us: 67
• 6 It Was a Grand and Imposing Ovation: 77
• 7 The Whiskey Was Still Abundant: 97
• 8 The Fame and Glory of Morgans Command: 111
• 9 This Was a HardFought Field: 129
• 10 Our March Was Cautious: 141
• 11 The Scene Was Ludicrous and Pitiful: 153
• 12 I Was Captured for the Last Time: 165
• 13 The Days Dragged Slowly By: 177
• 14 With Three Days Rations We Started Home: 189
• Memorandum: 205
• Notes: 207
• Bibliography: 271
• Index: 279

About the author

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Kent Masterson Brown is the creator of the magazine The Civil War. He is the author or editor of several books, including Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander, Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign, and The Civil War in Kentucky: Battle for the Bluegrass State. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.

Bibliographic information

• Title: One of Morgan's Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry
• Author: John Marion Porter
• Editor: Kent Masterson Brown
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2011
• ISBN: 0813129893, 9780813129891
• Length: 300 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); Reference / Encyclopedias