Forgotten Campaign

<p><strong>  </strong>Your readers have been informed by telegraph of the recent raids of immense forces of rebel guerrillas along our whole line at different points . . . in which the rebels were driven back; but this . . . leaves the impression that it was but an ordinary affair. Instead of its being a skirmish it was one of the fiercest and most brilliant little battles yet recorded in this fearful struggle for constitutional liberty. </p><p> Thus wrote Durante Bailey a special correspondent for the Chicago Times in September 1862 about the battle of Britton's Lane the culminating event in a military campaign known as Armstrong's Raid.</p><p> This book emphasizes the men North and South who rode down the dust-choked roads and died in the unharvested farm fields on a summer day more than one hundred and fifty years ago. They fought and died not in the glare of public view but in a forgotten campaign in a remote area of the country . . . ; however their sacrifice was no less than any other person who fought in that sectional conflict. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>