Table of Contents:
  • An American boyhood
  • Rallying around the flag
  • Colonel of the 6th Illinois cavalry
  • Scouting after guerillas in West Tennessee
  • From Iuka to Holly Springs
  • Grierson's raid
  • The siege of Port Hudson
  • Reorganizing the cavalry in West Tennessee
  • The Meridian expedition
  • Operations against Forrest
  • Brice's Cross Roads
  • A.J. Smith's operations in Mississippi
  • Reorganization and controversy
  • Raid on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
  • A visit to Washington
  • Final operations
  • Reconstruction duty
  • Conclusion.