During the fighting of the sixth and seventh, the entire Cavalry Corps was deployed near Todd's Tavern, located at the crossing of the Brock and Catharpin roads a little more than two miles below the southern end of the Union lines.
With this volume Stephen Z. Starr brings to a triumphant conclusion his prize-winning trilogy on the history of the Union cavalry.The War in the West provides accounts of the cavalry's role in the Vicksburg Campaign, the conquest of central ...
The historian Roy P. Stonesifer, Jr., has written that the Union cavalry came of age in these fights; indeed, ... Stonesifer, “The Union Cavalry Comes of Age,” 283. mand has been since the 8th instant, it has lost 4I2 THE UNION CAVALRY ...
In this first volume he presents briefly the story of the United States cavalry prior to the Civil War, describing how the Union cavalry was raised, organized, equipped, and trained, and offering detailed descriptions of the campaigns and ...