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| Col.Baxter Smith | Lt. Col. Paul F. Anderson |
| Maj. W. S. Bledsoe | Adjt. Geo. B. Guild |
A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THE
Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment
WHEELER’S CORPS, ARMY
OF TENNESSEE
By GEORGE B. GUILD
NASHVILLE, TENN.
1913
Dedication
To those comrades “who went with us but came not back again,” many of whom are sleeping in their blankets in unknown graves on the battlefields where they fell
The rough board that perhaps a comrade placed at the head to direct the footsteps of inquiring friends has long since rotted down; and the little mound they spread above their soldier breast has been leveled by the plowshare or the long years that have passed since then. But there the wild flower sheds its sweetest perfume to the morning air, and the song bird warbles its lay to the setting sun, and at night the stars of heaven, as they climb the Milky Way, look down and grow brighter as they pass.
CONTENTS.
| [Introductory] | |
| [I.] | Organization and Early Movements Outpost Duty at Franklin, Tenn.—Battle of Murfreesboro—Retreat to Shelbyville. |
| [II.] | From Fort Donelson to Chickamauga Fort Donelson—Woodbury, Tenn.—Trousdale’s Ferry on Caney Fork River—Resisting Rosecrans’s Advance on Shelbyville and Tullahoma—Bragg’s Retreat to Chattanooga—Wheeler’s Cavalry at Rome, Ga.—Battle of Chickamauga. |
| [III.] | Wheeler’s Raid into Middle Tennessee in 1863 |
| [IV.] | In East Tennessee Return to the Army of Tennessee at Missionary Ridge—Report of Lieutenant Colonel Anderson on the Battle of Chickamauga—Battles of Lookout Mountain and Orchard Knob—Missionary Ridge and Ringgold, Ga. |
| [V.] | Campaigning in Georgia Gen. Joseph E. Johnston Succeeds General Bragg as Commander in Chief—Remarks about General Bragg—General Sherman Advances on Dalton, Ga.—March to Atlanta, Ga.—Battles of Resaca and Kingston—New Hope Church—Kennesaw Mountain—Marietta and Atlanta—General Johnston Superseded by General Hood. |
| [VI.] | General Wheeler’s Capture of the Commands of Generals McCook and Stoneman Raid of General Wheeler into Tennessee in 1864—Behind the Lines. |
| [VII.] | In Tennessee, Virginia, and Harassing Sherman March through East Tennessee—Battle of Saltville, Va.—Return to Atlanta, Ga.—Sherman’s March to the Sea. |
| [VIII.] | The South Carolina Campaign Remarks about General Hood—Battle of Aiken, S. C.—Battle of Fayetteville, N. C. |
| [IX.] | In North Carolina Change in Brigade Officers—Gen. Joseph E. Johnston Succeeds General Hood and Assumes Command in North Carolina—Battle of Averyboro, N. C.—Bentonville, N. C. |
| [X.] | Further Movements in North Carolina, and the Beginning of the End Reorganization of the Army at Smithfield, N. C.—General Johnston Ordered to Greensboro, N. C.—Meets Confederate States Officials—General Johnston Confers with General Sherman, and an Agreement Made to End the War. |
| [XI.] | The End of the Struggle Surprise of the Army at Information of Surrender—Sherman-Johnston Capitulation Rejected at Washington—Another Agreement Looking to a Surrender on Terms Given General Lee at Appomattox—General Johnston’s Farewell Address to the Army—General Wheeler’s Address to the Cavalry. |
| [XII.] | Casualty Lists |
| [XIII.] | Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Other Officers |
| [XIV.] | An Address and a Speech |
| [XV.] | A Few Facts from History |
| [XVI.] | After the War |
| [XVII.] | General Bragg’s Kentucky Campaign in 1862 (By Baxter Smith) |
| [XVIII.] | Members of the Regiment Now Living |
| [Appendix] | |
| [Index] |