American military reliance on cavalry peaked during the Civil War. There were more than 1 million cavalry troops between Union and Confederate forces, accounting for nearly one-in-every-five ...

The Third Arkansas Cavalry was organized in October 1863 at Little Rock, becoming one of four Union cavalry regiments raised in Arkansas during the Civil War. Led by Col. Abraham Ryan, the Third ...

Author and military history professor Louis DiMarco talked about the evolution and role of the Union and Confederate cavalries over the course of the Civil War. He compared the capabilities of the ...

Howell Raines, a former executive editor of the New York Times, is the author of “Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta — and Then Got Written Out of ...

Holvar Anderson, only recently turned 21, had just purchased an 80-acre farm in Fruitland Township when he enlisted in the Union Army and marched off to fight in the Civil War. Anderson, born on ...

The Civil War officially began on April 12, 1861 at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, but North Carolina had yet to pick a side. ... The Union Cavalry was camped out by the Monroe Homestead, ...

2/21/2013. One of the most controversial cavalry raids of the Civil War was the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid of late February 1864. The goal was to release Union prisoners being held near Richmond, Va ...

The entrance of Union Cemetery, where a ceremony Saturday will honor former town resident William E. Hart, who received a Medal of Honor for actions as a scout in the Civil War in 1864 and 1865.

The story goes that old Polly McGuinness had convinced the Union commander to keep up the fight in Carlisle on July 1, 1863. Civil War 150: Shelling of Carlisle delays Rebel cavalry Skip to main ...

Peter served two years during the Civil War in the Union Army ... Our great-grandfather, Gurley Brown Chase, was a general in the Union's 4th Michigan Cavalry, Company C.