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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 16mo, 103 pgs., appendix: "An account of the Mutiny in the Anderson Cavalry, at Nashville, Tenn., Dec 1862 by Geo. S.Forbes, late Quartermaster of the Anderson Cavalry," (78-103). Original brown decorative, embossed cloth with gilt design and title on front cover, rear cover embossed without gilt. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Light edge rubbing to corners and spine ends; else clean and bright. Interior has contemporary paper label of former owner on endpaper, else pages are clean and tight. With clear, mylar wrapper. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, known as the Anderson Cavalry and the 160th Volunteers, was a three-year cavalry regiment during the Civil War. It was recruited and formed in the summer of 1862 by officers and men of the Anderson Troop, an independent company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers that had been mustered the previous November. Until the last three months of the war the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry was an independent unit reporting directly to the headquarters of the Army of the Cumberland, performing escort, scouting, courier and other details for the commanding general. Composed of hand-picked men most of whom were qualified to receive commissions, it became the favorite unit of both Generals William S. Rosecrans and George H. Thomas. Relative to the mutiny in Nashville, 415 soldiers were arrested and confined for insubordination. They submitted a list of grievances as cause, alleging a failure to appoint enough company officers (which was true; seven companies had no captain and four had no officers at all), being improperly mustered into federal service (or not at all), inadequate equipment with weapons, and enlistment inducements they claimed had not been honored. On January 19, 1863, Rosecrans offered to release from confinement those immediately willing to be restored to duty. 208 confined in the city workhouse still refused, but the others were returned to the ranks. Those returning to duty did so with recalcitrance and four were returned to confinement when they refused to perform picket duty. An unusual and scarce personal narrative; here in excellent condition. Seldom offered for sale; RareBook Hub notes two copies in 1979 and 1919. REFERENCES: DORN PA#93; NEVINS I pg. 179: "A cursory narrative of service in the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry; contains an interesting account of an 1862 soldier mutiny.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0224027
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