.......if you like to read first hand accounts from Soldiers who were in the thick of things, I'd like to recommend, " They Rode With Forrest And Wheeler", by John E Fisher. It deals with five brothers, who were all in the Confederate Cavalry, the 11th Tenn and the 4th Tenn. Never read a book quiet like it!!! When you read it, you can almost smell the smoke. I like Gen Forrest, but don't have much use for Wheeler. Gen Forrest took care of his men and they respected him and it goes with out saying, they were willing to die for him and the cause. Not true in the case of Wheeler, he had a lot of empty saddles for no good reason and the Troopers knew it. Jreb |