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Author / Creator:	Raines, Howell, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Crown, [2023]
Description:	xxii, 541 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	United States. -- Army. -- Alabama Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1862-1865) United States. -- Army -- Southern unionists. United States. -- Army United States. -- Army. -- Alabama Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1862-1865) Lost Cause mythology. Armed Forces -- Southern unionists Lost Cause mythology Regimental histories Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories. Alabama United States History
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13387617

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ISBN:	9780593137758 0593137752 9780593137765
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the history books. We all know how the Civil War was won: by courageous Yankees who triumphed over the South. But as veteran journalist Howell Raines shows, it was not only soldiers from Northern states who helped General William Tecumseh Sherman burn Atlanta to the ground, but also an unsung regiment of 2,066 Alabamian yeoman farmers--including at least one member of Raines's own family. Called the First Alabama Cavalry, USA, these 'Mountain Unionists' were the point of the spear that Sherman drove through the heart of the Confederacy. The famed general hailed their skills and courage. So why don't we know anything about them? Silent Cavalry is one part epic American history, one part family saga, and one part scholarly detective story. Drawing on the lore of his native Alabama, and investigative skills honed by six decades in journalism, Raines brings to light a conspiracy that sought to undermine the accomplishments of these renegade Southerners--part of the 'Lost Cause' effort to restore glory to white Southerners after the war, no matter the facts. Raines exposes this tangled web, implicating everyone from a former Confederate general, a gaggle of Lost Cause historians in the Ivy League, and a sanctimonious former keeper of the Alabama State Archives. By reversing the erasure of the First Alabama, Silent Cavalry is a testament to the immense power of historians to destroy, as well as to redeem"--
Other form:	Online version: Raines, Howell. Silent cavalry. First edition. New York : Crown, 2023 9780593137765

Table of Contents:

Part I: Varieties of racial education. What happened to me at Ma 'n' Ada's
The centrality of Gradystein Williams Hutchinson
Saved by Uncle Sam
Reading the stars
My Rosetta Stone
Chris Sheats: phantom of the hills
A discovery in Atlanta
Part II: Connecting the dots. How the First Alabama almost saved Atlanta from burning
Quoth the General
Open season in the Hill Country
A revolving spy
The tattler of the hills
In the Unionist pod
Part III: Marching to Savannah. Cotton thieves and draft dodgers
The slave owners' friend
Chris Sheats in the wilderness
A murderous conspiracy in the Whirling Hills
Natural-born spies of the First Alabama
The first fights of the Fighting First
Partners: a meeting of the minds
In praise of amateur historians
Dr. Kaeiser versus the feudists
Meanwhile, back at the war
Paths of glory and obscurity
Uncle Billy and his boys
Skedaddling home
Part IV: Hiding the evidence. Viral Tuscaloosa and the aristocratic fallacy
Bad boys of Richmond
Lee's bad old man
Hail Columbia
Tom and Marie
Smoking letters
A scholarly lynching
Birmingham money: the houses of Chisholm and Percy
Three kingdoms
The mountain king
Last answer, last question
The cutting room floor
Forgotten, but not gone.

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