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Confederate Cavalryman vs Union Cavalryman: Eastern Theater 1861–65 (Combat)

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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). Right through the serious, sprawling conflict that was once the Civil War, both Union and Confederate forces fielded substantial numbers of cavalry, which carried out the the most important tasks of reconnaissance, raiding, and conveying messages. The perception was once that cavalry’s effectiveness at the battlefield would be drastically reduced on this age of improved mass infantry firepower. This book demonstrates how cavalry’s lethal combination of mobility and dismounted firepower meant it was once still very much a force to be reckoned with in battle. It also charts the swing within the qualitative difference of the cavalry forces fielded by the 2 sides as the war progressed, as the enormous initial superiority enjoyed by Confederate cavalry was once step by step eroded, in the course of the Union’s outstanding improvements in training and tactics, and the bold and enterprising leadership of men such as Philip Sheridan.

Featuring full-color artwork, specially drawn maps, and archive illustrations.

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