Chapter I: Front Matter

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║ _A BRIEF NARRATIVE OF THE_ ║
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║ _Fourth Tennessee_ ║
║ _Cavalry Regiment_ ║
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║ _WHEELER’S CORPS, ARMY_ ║
║ _OF TENNESSEE_ ║
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║ Illustration ║
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║ _By GEORGE B. GUILD_ ║
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║ _NASHVILLE, TENN._ ║
║ _1913_ ║
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╔════════════════════════ Dedication ═══════════════════════╗
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║ _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_ ║
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║ ──────── ║
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║ 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. ║
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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