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By DONALD MANESS,Donald C. Maness,H. Jason Combs

ISBN-10: 0821419145

ISBN-13: 9780821419144

ISBN-10: 0821420089

ISBN-13: 9780821420089

William McKnight was once a member of the 7th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry from September 1862 till his dying in June of 1864. in the course of his time of carrier, McKnight penned dozens of emotion-filled letters, essentially to his spouse, Samaria, revealing the struggles of a whole relatives either sooner than and through the war.

This number of a couple of hundred letters presents in-depth debts of a number of battles in Kentucky and Tennessee, reminiscent of the Cumberland hole and Knoxville campaigns that have been pivotal occasions within the Western Theater. The letters additionally vividly reply to normal John Hunt Morgan’s raid via Ohio and proper claims formerly released that McKnight was once a part of the forces chasing Morgan. via all money owed Morgan did remain for a time period at McKnight’s domestic in Langsville in the course of his raid via Ohio, a lot to McKnight’s horror and humiliation, yet McKnight used to be in Kentucky on the time. Tragically, McKnight was once killed in motion approximately a 12 months later in the course of an engagement with Morgan’s males close to Cynthiana, Kentucky.

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