Three Cheers for the Chesapeake

History of the 4th Maryland Light Artillery Battery in the Civil War

Rick Richter

• Publisher: Schiffer Military History
• Year: 2017
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781507305027
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

Untold story of Maryland's smallest and bravest Confederate artillery battery

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: “I Left Maryland to Lend My Aid to the Confederate Cause”
• Chapter 2: “Most of the Men are Nice Good Fellows”
• Chapter 3: “Oh! We Have Had a Most Glorious Victory Here”
• Chapter 4: “They Don’t Know Anything Else but Fight”
• Chapter 5: “Our Position Was Well Calculated to Drive Confidence from the Stoutest Heart”
• Chapter 6: “All the Officers and Men Acted with Their Usual Coolness and Gallantry”
• Chapter 7: “Chew’s Battery Behaved Splendidly”
• Chapter 8: “Maryland May Well Be Proud of Such Sons”
• Appendix A: Myths
• Appendix B: Actions at the Battle of Second Manassas
• Appendix C: Losses in the Pennsylvania Campaign
• Appendix D: Unit Strength
• Appendix E: Losses
• Appendix F: Desertions
• Appendix G: Chesapeake Artillery Armament
• Appendix H: Misinformation, Veterans’ Memories, and the Historical Record
• The Roster
• Endnotes
• Bibliography
• Index