This is a fascinating memoir about General Basil W. Duke, a Confederate general and a prominent figure in Kentucky during the Civil War era. The author provides

These war memories are Basil Duke's forceful recollections of his participation in the Civil War.

In 1861, Union Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon marched through the divided slave state Missouri en route to St. Louis. Lyon was to arrest a state militia unit

Given in memory of Lt. Charles Britton Hudson, CSA & Sgt. William Henry Harrison Edge, CSA by Eugene Edge III.