HISTORY OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT KENTUCKY VOLUNTEER INFANTRY (Regimental History, 8th Kentucky Inf.)

Wright, Thomas J.

Published by St. Joseph Steam Printing Co., St. Joseph, MO, 1880

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SUBTITLED: During Its Three Years Campaigns Embracing Organization, Marches, Skirmishes, and Battles of the Command with Much of the History of the Old Reliable Third Brigade, Commanded by Hon. Stanley Mathews and Containing Many Interesting and Amusing Incidents of Army Life. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 12 mo, 286 pgs. Rebound in brown cloth with gilt titled cover. With errata slips after pg 128 and 193. Includes company rosters. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers clean and bright with new endpapers. Interior pages are age-toned. Penciled name on two preliminary pages and a colored pencil name with note on reverse if title page. Else pages are clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 8th Kentucky was with the Army of the Ohio and later Army of the Cumberland with service largely in Tennessee. Engagements at Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. Nice publication and quite scarce. REFERENCES: DORN II #345: Company roster of Co. C, 8th Battalion Kentucky volunteer Infantry (Formerly companies G and H, 8th regiment Kentucky volunteers (278)-281. COULTER 489."Captain Wright's book is one of the best of the regimental histories. Written fifteen years after the close of the Civil War, it is temperate and, since ir was composed from the author's diary, is reliable and worthwhile.This work contains many interesting comments on the population of Middle Tennessee, especially on the Confederate and Union elements and the slaves. This may be accepted as a fair account by an officer who was not influenced by a burning hatred of the Confederates and whose latter feelings, mellowed by time, were even milder." NEVINS I pg. 183: "A rich memoir of service in the West; author was a Federal officer who compiled his account shortly after the war and made constant reference to his wartime diary." MULLINS//REED #133. Howes W709 "b". Seller Inventory # 0124015

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Title: HISTORY OF THE EIGHTH REGIMENT KENTUCKY ...

Publisher: St. Joseph Steam Printing Co., St. Joseph, MO

Publication Date: 1880

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition