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The ledger book into which Robert T. Hubard, Jr., entered his Civil War experiences contained somewhat more text than appears in this edited account. Hubard was interested not only in relating his own service actions and those of his regiment but also in documenting other military campaigns that affected the course of the war. Although Hubard’s accounts of such campaigns as Vicksburg,Chickamauga,and Chattanooga are accurate, for example, they were, at best, secondhand reiterations of immediate postwar histories and, at worst, simple recitations of newspaper accounts. Moreover, they do not lend any information of interest to his own ¤rst-person account of the war in Virginia or shed any new light on the campaigns he mentions. Consequently, I have chosen to delete those passages in this edition. Although most of Bob Hubard’s campaign and battle¤eld reminiscences are eyewitness accounts of his own experiences, he is careful to note those campaigns in which he did not participate due to illness. Understandably , he has attempted to ¤ll these voids with facts that were probably provided by his comrades as well as by accounts written in his commanders’ battle reports on his return to duty. A few paragraphs containing background information on Hubard’s regimental of¤cers and cavalry commanders have been relocated within the text for the sake of clarity. Capitalizations, sentences, and paragraphs were somewhat irregularly determined in Civil War–era compositions, even among college graduates such as Hubard. Corrections have been made for the sake of clarity in the case of improper capitalizations. Lengthy sentences and paraEditor ’s Note graphs have been modi¤ed by creating multiple sentences and paragraphs wherever a distinct division of thought occurs. Hubard’s spelling was, for the most part, correct, with occasional interesting British usages such as “ardour,” “sabre,” and “defence.” In order to retain a bit of the ®avor for the document as Hubard wrote it, misspellings of easily recognized words (for example, “gayly” for “gaily”) and some proper names (for example, “Custar” for Custer) have been left uncorrected. Note, too, that throughout his memoir, Hubard refers to his home as “Chellow” even though descendants, locals, the current owners, and most publications spell it “Chellowe.” Brackets have been used throughout the document to clarify names and phrases and to insert omitted or corrected dates. Several of the of¤cers’ portraits (Hood, Phillips, and McClellan) are of men who rose to higher rank with other units later in the war. All three have been listed at the highest ranks that were reached by each man during his term of service with the 3rd Virginia Cavalry. In addition, General Roger A. Pryor, who rose to the rank of general early in the war, lost his brigade due to political-military issues. He subsequently joined the 3rd Virginia Cavalry, Company E, as a private but carried his general of¤cer’s title out of military tradition and courtesy. xxvi / Editor’s Note ...

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