Going Back the Way They Came: A History of the Phillips Georgia Legion Cavalry Battalion - Hardcover

Coffman, Richard M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881461873 ISBN 13: 9780881461879

Publisher: Mercer University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The product of over a decade's toil, Going Back The Way They Came is a thoroughly researched, comprehensive book that details the organization of the Philips Georgia Legion Cavalry Battalion unit and its combat odyssey. Using letters, diaries, period images, newspaper articles, archives and other forgotten sites throughout north Georgia, the author tells the story of this battalion. The result is a highly readable book that takes the reader on horseback through several of the major battles in the eastern theater of the Civil War.

The reader not only sees the word on the page of the book, but they also feel the pain and glory, smell the stenches, and hear the booms of gun and artillery in this accessible narrative.

The text is sprinkled with never before published images. Detailed appendices include annotated rosters for each cavalry company. Going Back The Way They Came is solid Civil War scholarship, and a narrative that is hard to put down.

About this title

About the Author

Richard M. Coffman graduated from Ohio State University, the University of Denver, and the University of South Carolina. He received the B.A., M.A., M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Coffman is a career Air Force officer and was awarded the Bronze Star and Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He was a special-education teacher for ten years after his retirement from the US Air Force. He taught severely emotionally disturbed adolescent children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881461873
• ISBN 13: 9780881461879
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 298