Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion

Until recently, it has been difficult for anyone with an interest in the Army of Northern Virginia’s horse artillery, which served under legendary cavalry commander J. E. B. Stuart, to envision what the men of the battalion endured. With the publication in 2002 of Robert Trout’s seminal book, Galloping Thunder: The Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion, the endeavors of the unit were rescued from obscurity. In Memoirs of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion, Trout provides readers with complete versions of three important primary documents, written by soldiers of the battalion. Lt. Lewis T. Nunnelee’s history of Moorman’s Battery is based on a seven-volume diary that Nunnelee kept during the war and features near daily entries of the battery’s actions. His extraordinary attention to detail offers readers an opportunity to follow the movements of the battery virtually hoofstep by hoofstep through the campaigns in which he participated. The “History of Hart’s Battery,” as told by Maj. James F. Hart, Dr. Levi C. Stephens, Louis Sherfesee, and Charles H.