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The Fighting 10th: The History of the 10th Missouri Cavalry US

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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!!!

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!