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Reluctant CannoneerThe Diary of Robert T. McMahan of the |
McMahan joined Company E, Second Ohio Cavalry on August 10, 1861. He arrived at St. Louis on January 18, 1862, and, following a short stay proceeded westward to Kansas, where he participated in the Indian Expedition of 1862, the Lone Jack pursuit in August, and numerous other scouts. On October 19, 1862, McMahan was involuntarily transferred to Stockton’s Kansas Artillery. The battery became the Twenty-fifth Independent Ohio Light Artillery on February 17, 1863, which made McMahan’s transfer permanent. About a year later, upon returning from furlough, McMahan learned that he had again been involuntarily transferred to Battery E, Second Missouri Artillery. As an artilleryman, he would see service at Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, the Van Buren Raid, the Little Rock Campaign, and the Camden Expedition. Corporal McMahan was an excellent observer and chronicler of camp life and battlefield. He also took unusual interest in his physical surroundings, from identifying fossils and geological formations to surveying Union forts and camps.
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360 pages, 6 x 9, paperback, 6 maps, 15 illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography,
index.
ISBN 1-929919-01-8. $19.95, plus $4.00 p/h.
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“I recommend Reluctant Cannoneer, not just for those fascinated by the Trans-Mississippi Theater, but for anyone interested in a well-written diary, providing an insight into the hopes, struggles, and trials of an extraordinary common soldier of the American Civil War.” —The Civil War News
