The Mutiny at Brandy Station: The Last Battle of the Hooker Brigade. A Controversial Army Reorganization, Courts Martial, and the Bloody Days That Followed. Foreword by Clark B. Hall.

Kensington, MD: Bates and Blood Press, (1993). First Edition. Signed by the Author. Octavo, navy blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xx, 207 pp. Fine in Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Mutiny at Brandy Station presents in microcosm the character and actions of men who served in the United States Army of the Potomac in 1864, when some of the veteran regiments were transferred from units they had served with pride and placed under commanders whose competence and bravery they questioned. This story honors some officers of truly heroic proportion who believed in their own invulnerability to such a degree as to be detrimental to their physical well-being, and reveals the petty, vindictive posturing and in-fighting of promotion politics among some others. It presents veteran enlistees who served with honor for three long years, sweated out their final days as honorably as possible, and wrestled with the question of re-enlisting under new officers. The setting is Brandy Station, Virginia, ten months after the greatest cavalry battle of the war had played out across its fields and now headquarters for Maj. George Meade’s Army of the Potomac...