Cole's Cavalry Or, Three Years In The Saddle In The Shenandoah Valley (1St Maryland Cavalry, Usa, Regimental History) Newcomer, Christopher Armour Military,Military History,Unit Histories

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, x, 165 pgs, frontis portrait, portrait plate. Muster in Roll, 12-19 pgs. Original brown cloth with gilt titled cover, floral endpapers. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers lightly rubbed, gilt a bit worn and rubbed. Interior is clean and tight. With clear mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: 1st Regiment, Maryland Cavalry, Potomac Home Brigade was made of four Companies. When organization was completed, these four companies were mustered into a battalion, and Captain Cole was promoted to Major and given command of that battalion. The First Potomac Home Brigade was then given the name as Cole s Cavalry . During the period of nearly four years from August 1861 to June 28, 1865, the regiment fought in nearly 200 engagements and captured more than 1000 prisoners. REFERENCES: DORN II 488; Coulter 338: "The main reason for inclusion in this bibliography are that the book was written by a Marylander in the Federal Army and that it describes personal associations of the author with natives of Maryland and northern Virginia. Newcomer was tricked into making a social visit to a Virginia family and while there was taken prisoner. His captors conveyed him to Richmond where he was imprisoned in Libby and on Belle Isle for a short tie before being paroled and sent into the Union lines. His military activities were confined mostly to Maryland and the Shenandoah Valley in Northern Virginia." HOWES N115 "aa'.