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Tag Archives: Confederate Cavalry
Stuart’s Promotion Prank
It’s pretty well documented that General J.E.B. Stuart liked to make jokes and play pranks on his peers and subordinates. Recently, I came across another one in the reminiscences of Thomas S. Garnett who served as a courier for the … Continue reading
Posted in Common Soldier
Tagged Confederate Cavalry, J.E.B. Stuart, Practical Jokes, promotion, Theodore S. Garnett
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Book Review: The Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign
The Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign: An Atlas of Mounted Operations from Brandy Station through Falling Waters, June 9-July 14, 1863 By Bradley M. Gottfried Savas Beatie, 2020, $34.95 hardcover. Reviewed by Zachery A. Fry Seasoned followers … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Campaigns, Cavalry
Tagged Book Review, Bradley Gottfried, Confederate Cavalry, Gettysburg Campaign, Union Cavalry
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“To Make A Foray”: A Letter From The Chickahominy Raid
This week I’ve been getting my notes ready for the Virtual Symposium filming session where I’ll be sharing about J.E.B. Stuart’s 1862 Chambersburg Raid. In the process of reviewing the historical information, I moved backward on the timeline and re-examined … Continue reading
Can I Really “Jine the Cavalry”?
I was about ten years old when I first read a reference to the Civil War song “Jine the Cavalry” in a kid’s biography book about J.E.B. Stuart. Curious, I wrote a friend, asking if he knew the lyrics and … Continue reading
Posted in Cavalry
Tagged cavalry, civil war songs, Confederate Cavalry, JEB Stuart, jine the cavalry, Research
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Richmond Reports on General Stuart’s Ride Around McClellan
One of our editors was poking around Newspapers.com the other evening and stumbled across announcements of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart’s famous (or infamous) ride around McClelland during the Peninsula Campaign. Occurring between June 12 and 15, 1862, the ride gathered … Continue reading
Florida’s “Cow Cavalry”
Napoleon Bonaparte once prophetically stated, “An army marches on its stomach.” A simple yet very truthful statement and a point that brought major concern and consternation to many a military leader before and after the French leader uttered those six … Continue reading
Posted in Cavalry, Common Soldier, Emerging Civil War, Leadership--Confederate, Memory, Monuments
Tagged 1st Battalion Florida Special Cavalry, Atlanta, Battle of Olustee, Charleston, Confederate Cavalry, Confederate Government, Confederate War Department, Cow Cavalry, Florida, Florida Confederates, John T. Lesley, Napoleon Bonaparte, Savannah, Tampa
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Question of the Week: 3/28-4/3/16
This week, Phill Greenwalt asks, “Was Fitzhugh Lee a good cavalry commander or a product of nepotism?” The same could be asked of Rooney Lee, too.
Prelude to Antietam
Antietam, Sharpsburg—whichever name you prefer, it characterizes the bloodiest single-day in American history. On the fields surrounding this bucolic western Maryland town, 23,000 men became casualties. Even before that bloody late summer day, the campaign had born casualties. Although definitely … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Campaigns, Monuments, Sesquicentennial
Tagged Alfred Pleasonton, Antietam, Antietam Campaign, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate Cavalry, Fitzhugh Lee, Illinois, Indiana, JEB Stuart, Maryland, New York, Richard Beale, Sesquicentennial, Thomas Munford, Union Cavalry, Virginia, Wade Hampton
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Brandy Station…Fleetwood Hill
Our friend, Eric Wittenberg, is making a concerted effort on his blog to save 50 acres of the Brandy Station Battlefield. For those of you that may not be too familiar with the battlefield, we have posted a short story, … Continue reading
