. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . CAVALRY OF THE CIVIL WARITS EVOLUTION AND INFLUENCE By Theo. F. RodexboughBrigadier-General, United States Army (Retired) IT may surprise non-military readers to learn that the UnitedStates, unprepared as it is for war, and unmilitary as are itspeople, lias yet hecome a model for the most powerful armiesof Europe, at least in one respect. The leading generals andteachers in the art and science of war now admit that our grandstruggle of 1861—65 was rich in examples of the varied use ofmounted troops in the field, which are worthy of
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . CAVALRY OF THE CIVIL WARITS EVOLUTION AND INFLUENCE By Theo. F. RodexboughBrigadier-General, United States Army (Retired) IT may surprise non-military readers to learn that the UnitedStates, unprepared as it is for war, and unmilitary as are itspeople, lias yet hecome a model for the most powerful armiesof Europe, at least in one respect. The leading generals andteachers in the art and science of war now admit that our grandstruggle of 1861—65 was rich in examples of the varied use ofmounted troops in the field, which are worthy of imitation. Lieutenant-General von Pelet-Narbonne, in a lecture he-fore the Royal United Service Institution of Great Britain,emphatically maintains that in any case one must remem-ber that, from the days of Napoleon until the present time,in no single campaign has cavalry exercised so vast an influ-ence over the operations as they did in this war, wherein, of atruth, the personality of the leaders has been very striking;such men as, in the South, the God-
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