Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War

"Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman" by James Harvey Kidd is a gripping memoir that transports readers to the heart of the American Civil War through the eyes of a soldier in Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade, where the story captures the raw emotions and unfolding events of the war as seen by a common trooper, from the growing tensions leading up to the conflict to the formation of the Michigan Cavalry, illustrating in sharp detail the recruitment, organization, and initial experiences of the soldiers as they prepared for the battles that would test their courage and shape the nation’s destiny.