As my former Aussie workmates would say, no worries. Seventy-two hours without sleep is about the point I start hallucinating. Now couple that with little or no food, rain, wide change in temperature, and trying to balance yourself on a horse and you begin to get a sense of the men on Wheeler's poorly planned and coordinated raid. I am not a Joe Wheeler fan and I am death on cavalry operations. My basic branch is Armor and I am a school trained cavalry officer. That raid has just great potential until Wheeler left the Sequatchie Valley and went toward McMinnville. That whole task/purpose and intent thing kicked his and Bragg's rear.

Geez, Jim pulled that paper out of his memory banks. I wrote that one for my class on Cavalry Operations in the Civil War ten years ago. Please send me an e-mail at rebel1863@hotmail.com.

I would like to say all is well in D.C. but it is not. Just watch the news and about the only thing that it motivates one to do is vomit.

Respectfully,

Gerald D. Hodge, Jr.
M.A. Military History - Civil War Concentration
Research – Preservation
Historian: 39th Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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