Mosgrove admits to a romanticism influenced by Sir Walter Scott in his description of the superiority of the officers and "some of the boys" in his regiment. At

George Dallas Mosgrove was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1844 and enlisted in the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry Regiment as a private on September 10, 1862. Throug

On April 22, 1861, within weeks of the surrender at Fort Sumter, fresh recruits marched to the Cynthiana, Kentucky, depot—one of the state's first volunteer c