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CONTINUOUS FIGHT: The Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit
of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4-14, 1863 |
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titanic three-day battle of Gettysburg left 50,000 casualties
in its wake, a battered Southern army far from its base of supplies,
and a rich historiographic legacy. Thousands of books and articles
cover nearly every aspect of the battle, but not a single volume
focuses on the military aspects of the monumentally important
movements of the armies to and across the Potomac River. Read
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Rush's
Lancers: The Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Civil War (2007) |
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Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, also known as Rush’s Lancers,
was a completely volunteer unit and one of the finest regiments
to serve in the Civil War. Tracing their history from George
Washington’s personal body guard during the Revolutionary
War, many of the men of the Sixth Pennsylvania were the cream
of Philadelphia society, including Richard H. Rush...Read
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Glory
Enough for All: Sheridan's Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian
Station (2007) |
| After
the ferocious fighting at Cold Harbor, Virginia, in June 1864,
Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered his cavalry, commanded
by Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, to distract the Confederate
forces opposing the Army of the Potomac. Glory Enough for All
chronicles the battle that resulted when Confederate cavalry
pursued and caught their Federal foes at Trevilian Station,
Virginia...Read
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Plenty
of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg
(2006) |
| June
1863. The Gettysburg Campaign is in its opening hours. Harness
jingles and hoofs pound as Confederate cavalryman James Ewell
Brown (JEB) Stuart leads his three brigades of veteran troopers
on a ride that triggers one of the Civil War's most bitter and
enduring controversies. Read More |
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The
Union Cavalry Comes of Age: Hartwood Church to Brandy Station,
1863 |
| 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... Read
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Little
Phil: A Reassessment of the Civil War Leadership of Gen. Philip
H. Sheridan |
| Unlike
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. William T. Sherman, whose controversial
Civil War-era reputations persist today, Maj. Gen. Philip H.
Sheridan has been largely untouched by controversy. In Little
Phil, historian Eric J. Wittenberg reassesses the war record
of a man long considered one of the Union Army's greatest generals. Read
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At
Custer's Side: The Civil War Writings of James Harvey Kidd |
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the Civil War, James Harvey Kidd fought alongside General George
Armstrong Custer as a member of the 6th Michigan Cavalry—the
Wolverines. After the war, Kidd served as brigadier general
in the Michigan National Guard and, upon returning to his civilian
career as a newspaperman, published two newspapers in his hometown. Read
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With
Sheridan in the Final Campaign Against Lee |
| After
enlisting in the elite Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment of
the Army of the Potomac, Frederick Newhall (1840-1898) quickly
rose to company commander and eventually to provost marshal
and assistant adjutant general at Cavalry Corps headquarters. Read
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Under
Custer's Command: The Civil War Journal of James Henry Avery
(Memories of War)
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| George
Armstrong Custer’s fabled Fifth Regiment fought with great
distinction throughout the war and suffered the thrid highest
total of men killed in the entire Union cavalry. A twenty-four-year-old
farmer and new father from Hopkins, Michigan, named James Henry
Avery was one of Custer’s feared “Wolverines.” Read
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Protecting
the Flank: The Battles for Brinkerhoff's Ridge and East Cavalry
Field, Battle of Gettysburg, July 2-3, 1863 (Discovering Civil
War America)
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| Award-winning
historian Eric J. Wittenberg has written a comprehensive sudy
of the critical actions on Brinkerhoff's Ridge and East Cavalry
Field, fought on July 2 and 3, 1863. In these actions, Union
Brig. Gen. David M. Gregg's Second Cavalry Division fought two
protracted and important actions along the Union right flank. Read
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Gettysburg's
Forgotten Cavalry Actions
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too many years the cavalry, especially the Federal cavalry,
and their contribution to the success or failure of the armies
to which they belonged has been largely ignored. Over the last
decade that has slowly begun to change. Read
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Battle
of Monroe's Crossroads and the Civil War's Final Campaign
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| The
Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, fought March 10, 1865, was one
of most important but least known engagements of William T.
Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. Confederate cavalry, led by Lt.
Gen. Wade Hampton and Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, launched a savage
surprise attack on the sleeping camp of Maj. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick,
Sherman's cavalry chief. Read More
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"We
Have It Damn Hard Out Here": The Civil War Letters of Sergeant
Thomas W. Smith, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry
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| Told
in his own words, this is the story of Sgt. Thomas W. Smith's
service in the Civil War - the greatest adventure of his life.
It is also the story of his regiment, the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry,
known as Rush's Lancers, named both for the distinctive wooden
lances they carried for the first two years of the war and for
their first commanding officer, Col. Richard H. Rush. Read
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One
of Custer's Wolverines: The Civil War Letters of Brevet Brigadier
General James H. Kidd, 6th Michigan Cavalry
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| Known
primarily for his 1876 defeat at Little Big Horn, George Armstrong
Custer is receiving renewed interest for his successful Civil
War generalship. He led the Michigan Cavalry Brigade in more
than sixty battles and skirmishes. Forming perhaps the finest
single cavalry brigade in the war, these soldiers proved themselves
and earned the nickname of “Custer’s Wolverines.” Read
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