The story of my campaign
Subtitle: the Civil War memoir of Captain Francis T. Moore, Second Illinois Cavalry
By: edited by Thomas Bahde
Contributors: Bahde, Thomas William
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780875804415
Subjects: United States; Military life; United States. Army. Illinois Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865); Soldiers; Personal narratives; United States. Army; Regimental histories; Cavalry operations; Biography; History
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Francis Moore's memoir and the construction of Civil War memory; title: Moore's preface; title: 1861; title: 1862; title: 1863; title: 1864; title: 1865; title: Epilogue: Francis Moore, Civil War veteran; title: Appendix A: Roster of Company L, "Delano's Dragoons," 2nd Illinois Cavalry; title: Appendix B: Letter of Francis C. Moore to Mary Moore, October 5, 1862; title: Appendix C: Letter of Francis C. Moore to Mary Moore, October 7, 1862; title: Appendix D: Captain Francis Moore to Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas requesting permission to raise a Black cavalry regiment.