Cracker Cavaliers: The 2nd Georgia Cavalry Under Wheeler and Forrest

Cracker Cavaliers: The 2nd Georgia Cavalry Under Wheeler and Forrest by Poole, John Randolph. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780865546974.

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 Bedford Forrest and Joe Wheeler, and campaigned not only on home turf, but literally on the farm acreages of many of the units members. Cracker Cavaliers: The 2nd Georgia Cavalry under Wheeler and Forrest documents the regiments participation in major campaigns of the western theater, including the Atlanta Campaign and Shermans March to the Sea from an ordinary soldiers perspective on the Civil War.