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

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 ...

The American Civil War significantly affected Tennessee, with every county witnessing combat. During the War, Tennessee was a ...

(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 ...