Prologue: The Best Cavalry in the World -- Cast of Leading Characters -- I. A Noble Band of Circuit Riders: Jeb Stuart's Famous First Ride Around McClellan -- II. A Stampede in Kentucky: John Morgan's First Kentucky Raid -- III. Storm in the Morning: Nathan Bedford Forrest's Capture of Murfreesboro, Tennessee -- IV. Three Times 'Round: Stuart's Second Circuit Around McClellan -- V. Fightin' Means Killin': Forrest's Long Midwinter Raid Against the Union's Western Tennessee Supply Line -- VI. A visit to Holly Springs: Earl Van Dorn's Destruction of the Huge Union Supply Depot at Holly Springs, Mississippi -- VII. Lay Your Wires to Kill Him: Morgan's Second Raid into Kentucky's Bluegrass Country -- VIII. The "War Child" Rides: Joseph Wheeler's Remarkable Cavalry Operations at Stone's River -- IX. To Steal a General: John Mosby's Kidnapping of Union General Edwin H. Stoughton -- X. Too Late to Gettysburg: Stuart's Long Ride and Late Arrival at Gettysburg -- XI. Long Ride to Oblivion: Morgan's Marathon Raid into Indiana and Ohio -- XII. Ride Down the Valley: Wheeler's Sequatchie Valley Raid to Isolate Chattanooga, Tennessee -- XIII. Until Forrest Is Dead: Forrest's Crushing Defeat of Samuel D. Sturgis at Brice's Crossroads -- XIV. Take No Prisoners: Mosby's Guerrilla Cavalry Raid on Philip H. Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley -- XV. A Perfect Piece of Rascality: Wade Hampton's Daring Raid to Steal the Union Army's Herd of Beef -- XVI. Devil on the River: Forrest's "Rebel Navy" Raid on Johnsonville, Tennessee -- Epilogue: Glory at a Gallop.