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[CIVIL WAR]. MOSGROVE, George D. (1847-1907). Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie or The Reminiscences of a Confederate Cavalryman. Louisville, KY: Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 1895. 8vo. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and 20 portraits and other illustrations inserted throughout. With Errata slip inserted at front between frontispiece and title-page. [2, blank], 265, [1, blank] pp. Publisher’s full burgundy cloth, front board decoratively stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt and stamped in blind, floral endleaves (some mild wear, soiling to binding, light soiling to lower edge of text block (not apparently affecting text), Ownership inscription of “Thos. Cormant” on ffep and front blank. Fine. FIRST EDITION. George Dallas Mosgrove enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment as a private on September 10, 1862. Through service as a clerk and orderly in both regimental and brigade headquarters, he became familiar with the environment of officers and command. His eyewitness account illuminates the western theater of the Civil War in Kentucky, east Tennessee, and southwest Virginia. His narrative includes unadorned passages that depict with stark honesty the sordidness of war and man’s inhumanity. Mosgrove provides first hand information about military actions at Blue Springs, Saltville, and elsewhere, and relates details of his participation in John Hunt Morgan’s Last Kentucky Raid and the skirmish where Morgan was killed. Mosgrove’s highly entertaining account is a perceptive and informative retelling of the truth as he saw it. Dorn II 381. Nevins I, pg 134: “A strange conglomerate of romanticism and realism and possessed of some of the choicest stories ever to be written about the Civil War…” Eicher 294: “Highly entertaining...a charm that will delight readers of the western theater…”