. History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . Major O. O. G. Robinson. MAJOR Tkeichei. CHAPTER VI WITH THE CAVALRY ON THE PENINSULA. By William W. Averell, Brevet Major-General, U. S. A.,formerly Colonel Third Pennsylvania Cavalry. April 4—August 3, 1862. In the Peninsular campaign of 1862 there were employed four-teen regiments of cavalry, entire or in parts, and two independentsquadrons. Considerably over half this force was composed ofvolunteers, and had been in existence about s
. History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 [electronic resource] . Major O. O. G. Robinson. MAJOR Tkeichei. CHAPTER VI WITH THE CAVALRY ON THE PENINSULA. By William W. Averell, Brevet Major-General, U. S. A.,formerly Colonel Third Pennsylvania Cavalry. April 4—August 3, 1862. In the Peninsular campaign of 1862 there were employed four-teen regiments of cavalry, entire or in parts, and two independentsquadrons. Considerably over half this force was composed ofvolunteers, and had been in existence about six months. In theregular cavalry three years had been regarded as necessary totransform a recruit into a good cavalryman. The amount ofpatient and persistent hard work required to convert twelve hun-dred untrained citizens, unaccustomed to the care of a horse or tohis use under the saddle, and wholly inexperienced in the use ofarms, into the semblance of a cavalry regiment in six monthsis known only to those who have done it. The topography and soil of the peninsula presented a mostdifficult field for cavalry operations. From Fort Monroe to
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