For Honor, Glory & Union: The Mexican and Civil War Letters of Brig. Gen. William Haines LytleUniversity Press of Kentucky " The Battle Rages Higher tells, for the first time, the story of the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, a hard-fighting Union regiment raised largely from Louisville and the Knob Creek valley where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. Although recruited in a slave state where Lincoln received only 0.9 percent of the 1860 presidential vote, the men of the Fifteenth Kentucky fought and died for the Union for over three years, participating in all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, as well as the battles of Perryville, Stones River and Chickamauga. Using primary research, including soldiersÕ letters and diaries, hundreds of contemporary newspaper reports, official army records, and postwar memoirs, Kirk C. Jenkins vividly brings the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry to life. The book also includes an extensive biographical roster summarizing the service record of each soldier in the thousand-member unit. Kirk C. Jenkins, a descendant of the Fifteenth Kentucky's Captain Smith Bayne, is a partner in a Chicago law firm. Click here for Kirk Jenkins' website and more information about the 15th Kentucky Infantry. |
Contents
Introduction | |
The Mexican War Letters 18471848 | 33 |
The Civil War Letters | 57 |
1861 | 61 |
1862 | 81 |
1863 | 141 |
Epilogue | 197 |
Buell Court of Inquiry Testimony of Col W H Lytle | 203 |
Last Speech by Brigadier General William Haines Lytle | 216 |
Mexican and Civil War Letters Written by William Haines Lytle in the Lytle Papers at the Cincinnati Historical Society | 221 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index | 229 |
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