Little other information is obtained due to the fatigue of the foot soldiers, numerous casualties, and the lack of Confederate cavalry trained in reconaissance.
The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...
and a troop of U.S. Colored Cavalry of about 80 men were driving about 900 cattle along the Old Midland Trail, which is today U.S. 60," Miller said. But Confederate guerillas based out of Spencer ...
An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 30 horses shot out from under him. Enlisting as a private in a mounted ...
The year was 1913, and it was July – a month marked by heavy air and hot summer sun. George Thom, an elderly citizen from Hutchinson, boarded a train that was heading southeast to ...
Rebel troops assault both hilltops ferociously and attempt to swing some troops even further south but are repulsed by Union cavalry ... the day and evening, no Confederate breakthrough occurs ...