In Memory of Self and Comrades: Thomas Wallace Colley's Recollections of Civil War Service in the 1st Virginia Cavalry (Michael K. Shaffer - DLM) Section - 3rd Day Politics and his testimony before

Politics and his testimony before the Committee on the Conduct of the War tainted his rising star

John Pope’s Army of Virginia on June 26

His memoir

and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left

In Memory of Self and Comrades: Thomas Wallace Colley's Recollections of Civil War Service in the 1st Virginia Cavalry (Michael K. Shaffer - DLM) Section - 3rd Day Politics and his testimony beforeEdited by Michael K. Shaffer Thomas W. Colley served in one of the most active and famous units in the Civil War, the 1st Virginia Cavalry, which fought in battles in the Eastern Theater, from First Manassas Bull Run to the defense of Petersburg. Colley was born November 11, 1837, outside Abingdon, Virginia, and grew up knowing the daily demands of life on a farm. In May 1861, along with the other members of the Washington Mounted Rifles, he left his