Confederate Wizards of the Saddle

Confederate Wizards of the Saddle is a gripping epic by Bennett Henderson Young detailing reminiscences and observations of the Confederate cavalry exploits during America's civil war.

The book, published in 1914, close to 5 decades after the war, recounts the audacious endeavors of cavalrymen, the last of their ilk to partake in an extensive military action.

Confederate Wizards of the Saddle contains narrations on the valiant and tragic tales of famous intrepid confederate generals, including Nathan Bedford Forrest, J.E.B. Stuart, John Mosby, John Hunt Morgan, Wade Hampton, and others.

Young manages to capture the bravely fought lost cause of the Old South so well in this book, making it the perfect read for those who enjoy reading history through the eyes of those who lived it. He tells the reality of the battleground from a Confederate official's point of view; the men who fought under Confederacy's most prominent generals—men whose battlefield tenacity and conviction sustained the Confederacy for over four years in the bloodiest warfare Americans have ever suffered.

Young was born in Kentucky and enlisted as a private in the Confederate at the age of seventeen under the cavalry command of John Hunt Morgan. He was captured in the raid in Ohio in 1863 but escaped to Canada, where he led other escaped insurgents to raid three banks in St. Albans, Vermont, at the US-Canada border.

This daring story and many more are recounted enthrallingly in Confederate Wizards of the Saddle!