. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . tains 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-inspired Stuart, and laterthe redoubtable Fitzhugh Lee, and on the Northern side,Sheridan and Pleasonton. For a long time after our Civil War, except as to its polit-ical or commercial bearing, that conflict attracted bu
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . tains 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-inspired Stuart, and laterthe redoubtable Fitzhugh Lee, and on the Northern side,Sheridan and Pleasonton. For a long time after our Civil War, except as to its polit-ical or commercial bearing, that conflict attracted but littleattention abroad. A great German strategist was reported tohave said that the war between the States was largely anaffair of armed mobs —a report, by the way, unverified, butwhich doubtless had its effect upon military students. In themeantime other wars came to pass in succession—Austro-Prus-sian (1866), Franco-German (1870), Russo-Turkish (1877),and later the Boer War and that between Russia and Japan. [16] t .« .V. aSS^^/flnSSS ■ft^wisfe im. m^^mm THE AMERICAN CAVALRYMAN—1864 The type of American cavalryman developed by the conditions during the war foughtequally well on foot and on horseback. In fact, he found during the latter part of thewar that his horse was chiefly useful in carrying him expeditiously from one part ofthe battlefield to the other. Except when a mounted charge was ordered, the horseswere far too valuable to be exposed to the enemys fire, be he Confederate or was only when cavalry was fighting cavalry that the trooper kept continuallymounted. The Federal sabers issued at the beginning of the war were of long, straightPrussian pattern, but these were afterward replaced by a light cavalry saber withcurved blade. A carbine and revolver completed the Federal troopers equipment.
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