TY - BOOK ID - 78674691 TI - Like a Meteor Blazing Brightly PY - 2015 SN - 1611212936 1611212464 1940669596 9781940669595 9781611212808 PB - El Dorado Hills, CA DB - UniCat KW - Petersburg (Va.) KW - United States KW - History KW - Campaigns. KW - Campaigns UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78674691 AB - Ulric Dahlgren was a brilliant, ambitious young man who became the youngest full colonel in the United States Army at the age of twenty-one, yet died before his twenty-second birthday. This is the first biography of Dahlgren, and thankfully it was penned by cavalry expert and award-winning author Eric J. Wittenberg.Wittenberg's account chronicles Dahlgren's full life story, with a deep look at his military career and extensive connections within the nation's capital, all of which led to the climax of his life: the notorious Dahlgren Raid.Like a Meteor Burning Brightly: The Short but Controvers ER -