![]() | Wolford''s Cavalry: The Colonel, the War in the West, and the Emancipation Question in Kentucky Subjects: Wolford Frank L. (Frank Lane) 1817–1895; United States. Army. Kentucky Cavalry Regiment 1st (1861–1864); United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Campaigns; United States -- Hist; Colonel Frank Wolford, the acclaimed Civil War colonel of the First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, is remembered today primarily for his unenviable reputation. Despite his stellar service record and widespread fame, Wolford ruined his reputation and his career over the question of emancipation and the enlistment of African Americans in the army. Dan Lee is a Civil War historian and the author of several books, including The L&N Railroad in the Civil War: A Vital North-South Link and the Struggle to Control It and Thomas J. Wood: A Biography of the Union General in the Civil War . |
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