Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 (Eric J. Wittenberg - CWC) love Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on

Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party

Splendidly mounted on his favorite mare Virginia

edited by Donald Yacovone

Three related themes are examined in this fascinating study: the social dynamics of race relations in Union Army camps

and homesickness and worried about loved ones left at home without financial support

Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 (Eric J. Wittenberg - CWC) love Preston Brooks's frenzied assault onHolding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 by Eric Wittenberg In 2014, Eric J. Wittenberg published The Devils to Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour, an award winning study of Union cavalry delaying actions at Gettysburg. Fast forward four years to 2018 and Wittenbergs latest release, a companion Western Theater study entitled Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union