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Hurst's Wurst: Colonel Fielding Hurst and the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry U.S.A.

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The strength of this book is that it focuses on an interesting and little studied unit. Tennessee Unionist regiments in general haven't been the focus of a lot of regimental histories, and West Tennessee units are even less studied than those from East Tennessee.
Not surprisingly, information seems to be somewhat limited on the 6th TN. There just isn't a lot of detail on the regiment and many of its actions. I suspect this is mostly due to a lack of available accounts rather than any failure of the author regarding research. This is a good account of the regiment's actions, but one is left wanting more information. Still, some hitherto little studied actions in West Tennessee receive what attention they can. For what appears to be a self published books, the editing and production values are pretty good, although some errors creep in. With the above in mind, this is a worthwhile history of an obscure unit, necessarily limited in its detail.