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Cracker Cavaliers
A Regimental History of the Second Georgia Cavalry with Forrest and Wheeler
John R. Poole
From the first conflict under General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Murfreesboro in 1862 to the desperate and often brutal battles with Union cavalry in the Carolinas during 1865, the Second Georgia was almost constantly in action. While the Second Georgia fought in such famous campaigns as Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Knoxville, Resaca, Atlanta, and Bentonville, they also participated in deadly encounters at Farmington, Mossy Creek, Noonday Creek, Sunshine Church, and Waynesboro. Many of these conflicts are obscure to all but the most ardent Civil War historians. This is the first regimental history of a Georgia Cavalry regiment ever published. The Second Georgia served under both Nathan Beford Forrest and Joe Wheeler, and campaigned not only on home turf, but literally on the farm acreages of many of the unit’s members.
Cracker Cavaliers: A Regimental History of the Second Georgia Cavalry under Forrest and Wheeler documents the regiment’s participation in major campaigns of the western theater, including the Atlanta Campaign and Sherman’s March to the sea from an ordinary soldier’s perspective on the Civil War.
John Randolph Poole, a graduate of the University of Georgia, is managing partner of Poole and Dunn Public Affairs Company in Kennesaw, Georgia.
"John Poole has undertaken a meticulous historical research to produce this definitive history of the Second Georgia that will be immensely appreciated by both the academic community and the Civil War military buff."
Wisconsin Bookwatch
March 2001
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