Preliminary Table of Contents
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
1. Join the Cavalry
2. Gone For A Soldier
3. Gettysburg and Guerrillas
4. Inglorious Warfare
5. The Killing Ground
6. Old Jube Invades
7. Hard Marching
8. Sheridan Takes Command
9. Opequon Creek and Fisher's Hill
10. A Crow Will Have to Carry His Own Provisions
11. The Woodstock Races
12. Sabers at Cedar Creek
13. Burning Mosby's Confederacy
14. Virginia Mud
15. Dinwiddie Courthouse
16. The Five Forks Shad Bake
17. Road Block at Appomattox
Appendix - Casualties
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A history of the only organized units of Californians to fight in the main theater of the Civil War.
A descendent of a pioneer family that came to San Francisco in 1848, McLean graduated from the University of California in 1956. During his service in the Korean War, he became interested in the Civil War when a Navy Librarian suggested he read Bruce Catton's trilogy on the Army of the Potomac. McLean started collecting volumes of the Official Records and any other books he could find relating to the Civil War. When his brother, the family genealogist, told him they had a great-great uncle who fought in the Civil War, he discovered the California Battalion and Hundred in the Official Records. In 1993 he retired to devote more time to the writing of the history of the Battalion and Hundred. This book is a culmination of this twenty-year effort.
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