Excerpt from Hundred Battles in the West: St. Louis to Atlanta, 1861-65; The Second Michigan Cavalry; With the Armies of the Mississippi, Ohio, Kentucky and Cumberland, Under General Halleck, Sherman, Pope, Rosecrans, Thomas and Other; With Mention of a Few of the Famous Regiments and Brigades Of
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole," and it is with the hope that this very small part of the history of our beloved country will find a place in the hearts of not a few, that it is sent out into the world, craving indulgence for imperfections, and justice if merit is discovered.
This work was begun as a history of the Second Regiment of Michigan Cavalry, a regiment that started from an obscure position in the regular army Gordon Granger toward a major-generalship and Philip Henry Sheridan to the proud position of the brightest military genius of the age in which he won his stars.
As the work of searching the records begun, it was found impossible to limit the writings to the doings of one regiment, and so you have here a partial history (written impartially) of the war of 1861-5. General Logan truthfully said "the full history of the Great Rebellion will never be known until every regiment and every company has been heard from."
Official and private records have yielded up their treasures freely, and have been carefully compared and revised with the writer"s own journal as tho groundwork. There was no need of fiction, for truth was stranger far, in every instance worth recording.
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