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RIDE WITH A REBEL TROOPER

In Memory of Self and Comrades: Thomas Wallace Colley’s Recollections of Civil War Service in the 1st Virginia Cavalry

Edited by Michael K. Shaffer

University of Tennessee Press, 2018, $47

Thomas W. Colley went to war from his home far down Virginia’s southwestern tail with a mounted

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