Books by "James Harvey Kidd"
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Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War
by James Harvey Kidd
1908 · Time Life Medical
James Harvey Kidd raised his own Union Cavalry company; participated in more than 60 engagements from Richmond to Gettysburg to Appomattox; left the Army after three years wearing a general's stars. Native of Ionia, Michigan, he also served in the Powder River expedition against the Sioux and Cheyenne in present-day Montana.
Primarily known for his postwar exploits, most famously for his 1876 defeat at Little Big Horn, George Armstrong Custer led a formidable cavalry that became known as Custer's Wolverines. This volume presents the Civil War letters of one of those Wolverines, James H. Kidd.