The Little Jeff: The Jeff Davis Legion, Cavalry Army of Northern Virginia [Hardcover]

Donald A. Hopkins (Author), Donald Hopkins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999

The Jeff Davis Legion, Cavalry Army of Northern Virginia

Product Details

• Hardcover: 325 pages
• Publisher: White Mane Pub; First edition (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572491728
• ISBN-13: 978-1572491724
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,658,852 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As author I consider this a unique C.S.A. Regimental History, October 18, 1999

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Don Hopkins - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Little Jeff: The Jeff Davis Legion, Cavalry Army of Northern Virginia (Hardcover)

This is the first complete history of The Jeff Davis Legion, initially designated the 2nd Mississippi Cavalry Battalion. Fighting under Jeb Stuart and Wade Hampton it later followed Hampton to Georgia and the Carolinas. Though companies from Georgia and Alabama joined the regiment, it remained officially a "Mississippi" cavalry unit. They were the only Mississippi cavalry to fight as part of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

Among the men of the "Little Jeff" were educated elite from Natchez and Savannah and rustic farmers and country tradesmen from Kemper County, Mississippi and Sumpter and Barbour Counties, Alabama. Through first hand accounts we follow these soldiers from their early enthusiasm until camp life and sickness brought war into perspective. They fought their first engagement in late 1861 and from then on fought in most of Lee's campaigns. They were at Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Seven days, Antietam, Trevilian Station, Brandy Station, Gettysburg and countless smaller engagements They sustained some of their greatest losses at lesser known places like Upperville, Funkstown, Stony Creek, and Bentonville.

Readers of this history should come away not only with an accurate characterization of the Confederate cavalryman, but also with an understanding of their place in the overall strategy of Lee's army. The related book, published simultaneously, "Horsemen of the Jeff Davis Legion" gives information taken from the individual cavalryman's service record from the National Archives as well as a wealth of information from other sources about each man. This should be useful as a geneological reference. Also contains statistics related to the Jeff Davis Legion and brief biographies of senior officers associated with it.

Donald A. Hopkins

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a book on the Jeff Davis Legion, March 3, 2000

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Jerry A. Lake (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Little Jeff: The Jeff Davis Legion, Cavalry Army of Northern Virginia (Hardcover)

The author expended a tremendous effort in researching the Jeff Davis Legion. He has created an interesting history of this unusual cavalry unit. Any one who is interested in the Confederate Cavalry will enjoy the detail information the author has dug out of the archives.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Correction, January 6, 2000

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Don Hopkins - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Little Jeff: The Jeff Davis Legion, Cavalry Army of Northern Virginia (Hardcover)

Amazon says book has 40 pages. It has 325