. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . CAVALRY AT SUDLEYS FORDBULL RUN Not until the time this photograph was taken—March, 186-2—did the Union cavalrymen revisit this littleford after the disastrous rout of the inchoate Federal army the July previous. The following March, theConfederate commander Johnston left his works at Centerville for the Peninsula, having learned thatMcClellans move on Richmond would take that direction. This group of cavalrymen is advancing acrossthe stream near the ford where they had so gallantly protected the Federal flight only a few months be
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . CAVALRY AT SUDLEYS FORDBULL RUN Not until the time this photograph was taken—March, 186-2—did the Union cavalrymen revisit this littleford after the disastrous rout of the inchoate Federal army the July previous. The following March, theConfederate commander Johnston left his works at Centerville for the Peninsula, having learned thatMcClellans move on Richmond would take that direction. This group of cavalrymen is advancing acrossthe stream near the ford where they had so gallantly protected the Federal flight only a few months the time this was taken, the Federal Government had already changed its first absurd decision to limitits cavalry to six regiments of regulars, and from the various States were pouring in the regiments thatfinally enabled the Union cavalry to outnumber and outwear the exhausted Southern horse in 1864 and 1865.
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