Confederate Cavalryman vs Union Cavalryman
Confederate Cavalryman vs Union Cavalryman This gripping study offers key insights into the tactics, leadership, combat performance, and subsequent reputations of Union and Confederate mounted units…
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Confederate Cavalryman vs Union Cavalryman
This gripping study offers key insights into the tactics, leadership, combat performance, and subsequent reputations of Union and Confederate mounted units fighting in three pivotal cavalry actions of the Civil War - Second Bull Run/Manassas (1862), Buckland Mills (1863), and Tom's Brook (1864). The perception was that cavalry's effectiveness on the battlefield would be drastically reduced in this age of improved mass infantry firepower. During the intense, sprawling conflict that was the Civil War, both Union and Confederate forces fielded substantial numbers of cavalry, which carried out the crucial tasks of reconnaissance, raiding, and conveying messages.
It also charts the swing in the qualitative difference of the This book demonstrates how cavalry's lethal combination of mobility and dismounted firepower meant it was still very much a force to be reckoned with in battle.