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The Dreaded Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry: Marauding Mountain Men

By Melanie Storie

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
9781625845665, 9781626191129, 2013039041
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2437089 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-11 07:45:41
History; Nonfiction; HIS036120

Description

Tennessee's Thirteenth Union Cavalry was a unit composed mostly of amateur soldiers that eventually turned undisciplined boys into seasoned fighters. At the outbreak of the Civil War, East Tennessee was torn between its Unionist tendencies and the surrounding Confederacy. The result was the persecution of the "home Yankees" by Confederate sympathizers. Rather than quelling Unionist fervor, this oppression helped East Tennessee contribute an estimated thirty thousand troops to the North. Some of those troops joined the "Loyal Thirteenth" in Stoneman's raid and in pursuit of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Join author Melanie Storie as she recounts the harrowing narrative of an often-overlooked piece of Civil War history.

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