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George B. Guild

1834–1917

A Civil War veteran, Nashville mayor, and memoirist, he left behind a firsthand account of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry that helps keep a lesser-known corner of American history alive. His life moved between public service and remembrance, giving his writing a strong sense of lived experience.

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A brief narrative of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Wheeler's Corps, Army of Tennessee

A brief narrative of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Wheeler's Corps, Army of Tennessee

by George B. Guild

About the author

Born in 1834, George B. Guild is best known today for A Brief Narrative of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Wheeler's Corps, Army of Tennessee, published in 1913. The book draws on his connection to the regiment and stands as a personal historical record of Confederate cavalry service during the Civil War.

Guild also had a public career in Tennessee. He served as mayor of Nashville from 1891 to 1895, and reference sources identify him more fully as George Blackmore Guild. That combination of soldier, public official, and later chronicler gives his work a distinctive perspective: he was writing not simply as a historian, but as someone deeply shaped by the events he described.

He died in 1917. For listeners interested in memoir, military history, or the voices of people who tried to preserve their own era in print, Guild's work offers a direct window into the memory and politics of the postwar South.