Confederate cavalry commander, John Hunt Morgan, launched his first raid into Kentucky. According to Lowell H. Harrison’s The ...

Mary Jane Chadick, as told in "Incidents of the War: The Civil War Journal of ... Madison County Historical Society and Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table. "Social gatherings practically ...

An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 30 horses shot out from under him. Enlisting as a private in a mounted ...

Hear more Tennessee Voices:Get the weekly opinion newsletter for insightful and thought provoking columns. Forrest’s Civil War cavalry victories are still discussed and dissected today ...

Macon Freeman, 20th Tennessee Cavalry and Lt. John C ... Until now, I never had to face up to the real basis for the Civil War and what it means. I understand why African-Americans who stare ...

(WOWK) — When West Virginia became a state on June 20, 1863, the Civil War was still ... troops would be pushed out of Tennessee, and in response, sent cavalry troops from West Virginia to ...

He then joined the 7th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry — already in the field in Tennessee, as part of Minty ... dating from as early as the Revolutionary War. Williams is one of six veterans ...