The Third Arkansas Cavalry was organized in October 1863 at Little Rock, becoming one of four Union cavalry regiments raised in Arkansas during the Civil War. Led by Col. Abraham Ryan, the Third ...

While the function of horse-mounted cavalry units in the U.S. military is now strictly ceremonial, in the Civil War, they were indispensable to both Union and Confederate armies, accounting for nearly ...

On July 6, 1863, Confederate and Union cavalry clashed at the intersection of Baltimore and South Potomac streets in Hagerstown. That skirmish was the start of what was to become the Battle of ...

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FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- Dozens of Stetson-clad troopers gathered Jan. 27 at the Commons on Fort Drum to celebrate cavalry tradition, spirit and camaraderie and to write another chapter in the history of ...

The Battle of Gettysburg may have been the turning point of the Civil War, but no one told the Confederates that, especially in the West. In August 1864, Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price received ...

During World War II the U.S.S.R. was the only combatant to make extensive use of seemingly obsolete mounted cavalry, with considerable success. In this book, Harrel, a retired major general and the ...