Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman / With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War

A veteran cavalryman recounts episodic personal recollections of serving with a mounted brigade in the Civil War, tracing recruitment, training, movements to the capital, and active campaigning. The narrative moves through major engagements, raids, winter encampments, and skirmishes, with attention to troop conduct, unit character, and the roles of fellow officers and men. The account balances memory with consultation of official reports and other contemporary writings, and is supplemented by portraits, maps, and a roll of the fallen to preserve the brigade's experiences.