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In THE UNION CAVALRY COMES OF AGE,
award-winning cavalry historian Eric J. Wittenberg provides a
long-overdue challenge to the persistent myths that have unfairly
elevated the reputations of the Confederate cavalry’s “cavaliers”
and sets the record straight regarding the evolution of the Union
cavalry corps. He highlights the careers of renowned Federal
officers, including George Stoneman, William W. Averell, Alfred
Pleasonton, John Buford, and Wesley Merritt, as well as such
lesser-known characters as Col. Alfred Duffie, a French expatriate
who hid an ugly secret. Wittenberg writes a lively, detailed
account of a saber-slashing era in which men fought for duty,
honor, and bragging rights. Indeed, a taunting note left behind by
Confederate Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee on a raid at Hartwood Church,
Virginia, in 1863 sparked Northern retaliation at the Battle of
Kelly’s Ford. The Federal cavalry then evolved during the trials of
Stoneman’s Raid, with their hard work culminating in the Battle of
Brandy Station, where they nearly broke the unsuspecting
Confederates in a fourteen-hour maelstrom that is considered the
greatest cavalry battle ever fought in North America. A skillfully
woven overview, this unforgettable story also depicts the strategic
and administrative tasks that occupied officers and politicians as
well as the day-to-day existence of the typical trooper in the
field. THE UNION CAVALRY COMES OF AGE shows that Northern troopers
began turning the tide of the war much earlier than is generally
acknowledged and became the largest, best-mounted, and
best-equipped force of horse soldiers the world had ever seen.
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Hardback - November 2003 |
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