The Fighting 10th: The History of the 10th Missouri Cavalry US [Hardcover]

Len Eagleburger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 4, 2004

During or after the Civil War, noofficial history was ever written on this Missouri Union Cavalry Regiment.¿ This book¿ hopefully will accomplish this.¿ While the Regimental records now lay at thebottom of the Mississippi River near Greenville, Mississippi when the Steamer B.M. Runyan hit a snag in the river and sank in the summer of1864, the records have now been reconstructed for the first time along withRosters.¿ This book is based upon threeseparate partial histories which were incomplete individually, but have been conveniantly consolidated into a consistanttimeline, for the benefit of the men who served in the Regiment as well asfuture researchers. From early events through the end of the war, the book alsogives a brief history of the Civil War in Missouri.¿

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Len Eagleburger is a native ofthe Ozarks region of Southwest Missouri being born in Springfield,Greene County, Missouriin 1950. He became interested in the Civil War at an early age helping topreserve the 100th Anniversary, by keeping a scrapbook of Civil War articles hecollected from the Springfield Newspapers, Time and Look Magazines, and etc. Ashe researched his great great grandfather's movementsduring the Civil War, he realized that there was no complete history of the10th Missouri Cavalry written.He served in the U.S. Army from1970-72 as a Specialist 4th Class in Dispatching at Ft. Bliss, Texas, and is a Viet NamEra Veteran.He is a 1981 graduate of Southwest Missouri State University,with a Double major in Finance/Business.He is retired from the motionpicture theatre industry in Springfield, holding all major positions of bothdrive in and indoor as both management and Union Projectionist, and hascontributed to the Ozarks Labor Archives at Southwest Missouri University.He is active in DemocraticPolitics in Greene County Missouri, serving as a committee-person and mostrecently running for State Representative 138th District.¿ He is a Democratic Socialist.He is a member of the Son's ofUnion Veterans of the Civil War Phelps Camp # 66 (Springfield/Wilson's Creek,Missouri), Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Foundation, and the Civil WarRoundtable of the Ozarks.He is also a member of theDisabled American Veterans.He has one daughter, Stacey Annis, and is a proud grandfather of¿ Michaela. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 652 pages
• Publisher: 1st Book Library (February 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 141403296X
• ISBN-13: 978-1414032962
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,467,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Disappointed!!!, March 17, 2008

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This review is from: The Fighting 10th: The History of the 10th Missouri Cavalry US (Hardcover)

I have read many regimental histories and for most part they are well done. However, when a book has 600+ pages I expect a little more than just 200 pages of actual unit history. The other 400+ pages were nothing more than the rosters of different units. Even so, the information that you do get from this book has no real depth to it. I would not recommend this book to anyone who is truly interested in learning about units who served during the civil war in the western theater. If you do get this book then you will be just like me---Extremely Disappointed!!!

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference!, August 22, 2011

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This review is from: The Fighting 10th: The History of the 10th Missouri Cavalry US (Paperback)

I found this book because I wanted to know what my second and third great-grandfathers went through in the war. The regimental records sunk in the Mississippi, so this book has been so helpful. I grew up in Missouri, and there is a good amount of background history leading up to the tensions in Missouri at the beginning of the war that I had never heard of. I felt that this was quite a thorough account with what the author had to work with. This book is the closest I could have gotten to seeing a little bit of my grandfathers' lives next to consulting with a medium. Thank you, Len Eagleburger!