Hundred Battles in the West - St. Louis to Atlanta, 1861-65; The Second Michigan Cavalry; With the Armies of the Mississippi, Ohio, Kentucky and Cumberland, Under General Halleck, Sherman, Pope, Rosecrans, Thomas and Other; With Mentio... #255345

As the work of searching the records begun, it was found im possible to limit the writings to the doings of one regiment, and so you have here a partial history (written impartially) of the war of 1861-5. General Logan truthfully said the full history of the Great Rebellion will never be known until every regiment and every company has been heard from. Official and private records have yielded up their. Treasures freely, and have been carefully compared and revised with the writer's own journal as the groundwork. There was no need of fiction, for truth was stranger far, in every instance worth re cording.