This book was written by George Dallas Mosgrove, edited by Bell Irvin Wiley, published in 1957, the narrative is 265 pages and is illustrated with black and white drawings and photos. George Dallas Mosgrove was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1844, and enlisted in the 4th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment as a private on September 10, 1862. Through service as a clerk and orderly in both regimental and brigade headquarters, he became familiar with the environment of officers and command. His eyewitness account illuminates the Western theater of the Civil War in Kentucky, east Tennessee and southwest Virginia. Mosgrove admits to a romanticism influenced by Sir Walter Scott in his description of the superiority of the officers and "some of the boys" in his regiment. At the same time, his narrative includes unadorned passages that depict with stark honesty the sordidness of war and man's inhumanity. Mosgrove provides firsthand information about military actions at Blue Springs, Saltville, and elsewhere, and relates details of his participation in John Hunt Morgan's Last Kentucky Raid and the skirmish where Morgan was killed. Mosgrove's highly entertaining account is a perceptive and informative retelling of the truth as he saw it. This hard back book is in good condition, with a dust jacket in fair condition.