Summary of Silent Cavalry by Howell Raines: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History - E-book - ePub

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Exceptionally summarized content that you may skip in the original book  Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Howell Raines has revealed the hidden story of Union soldiers from Alabama who played a crucial role in the Civil War. The First Alabama Cavalry, consisting of 2, 066 Alabamian yeoman farmers, was instrumental in General William Tecumseh Sherman's victory over the Confederacy. Raines's book, Silent Cavalry, is part American history, part family saga, and part scholarly detective story.
The book exposes a conspiracy to undermine the accomplishments of these southerners, a key component of the Lost Cause effort to restore glory to white southerners after the war. The book reveals the power of historians to destroy and redeem the past.