Abel D. Streight (June 17, 1828 - May 27, 1892) was a lumber merchant, publisher, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War, noted for his daring cavalry raid, Streight's Raid, in 1863. After the war, he served as a State Senator in Indiana for two terms. Streight was born in Wheeler, New York. He moved to Cincinnati, and then, by 1859, to Indianapolis, where he was a publisher of books and maps. Wikipedia
The story of Abel D. Streight's Union raid across Alabama in April 1863, a much neglected and heretofore maligned episode is fully documented in The Lightning Mule Brigade: The Story of Streight's 1863 Raid. members.aol.com/rlwillett/civilwarbooks003.htm
This report details Union Col. Abel D. Streight's raid through Northern Alabama, which originally set out from Nashville, and was eventually headed for Rome, Georgia. en.wikisource.org/wiki/Report_of_Col._Abel_D._Streight,_A...
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