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Book Synopsis In July 1862, the directors of the Chicago Board of Trade used their significant influence to organize perhaps the most prominent Union artillery unit in the Western Theater. Enlistees were Chicagoans, mainly clerks. During the Civil War, the battery was involved in 11 major battles, 26 minor battles and 42 skirmishes. They held the center at Stones River, repulsing a furious Confederate attack. A few days later, they joined 50 other Union guns in stopping one of the most dramatic offensives in the Western Theater. With Colonel Robert Minty''s cavalry, they resisted an overwhelming assault along Chickamauga Creek. This history chronicles the actions of the Chicago Board of Trade Independent Light Artillery at the battles of Farmington, Dallas, Noonday Creek, Atlanta, in Kilpatrick''s Raid, and at Nashville, and Selma.
Trade ReviewAs the field's most prominent current historian of the Union cavalry attached to the Army of the Cumberland, Belcher is uniquely positioned to document the Chicago Board of trade Battery's inextricable links to the western mounted arm's evolution and fighting performance across a vast host of battles, raids, and skirmishes. … Belcher has crafted one of the more impressive Civil War battery histories of recent memory. …essential reading to all serious Civil War cavalry students."—
Civil War Books and AuthorsTable of Contents
- Acknowledgments viii
- Preface
- Chapter One. The Organization of the Battery and Movement to Kentucky
- Chapter Two. On to Tennessee and the Battle of Stones River
- Chapter Three. Horse Artillery and the Tullahoma Campaign
- Chapter Four. March to Chickamauga Creek (July 5–September 17, 1863)
- Chapter Five. Battle of Chickamauga and Wheeler's Raid
- Chapter Six. 1864 and the Atlanta Campaign
- Chapter Seven. The Nashville Campaign
- Chapter Eight. Wilson's Raid and the End of the War
- Chapter Nine. Post-War Biographical Information
- Appendix I: Roster of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery
- Appendix II: Battery Losses
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
