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A gift from J.E.B. Stuart, Lucy Long was the primary back-up horse used by Lee Methuselah: Ulysses S. Grant: Grant's first horse upon re-entering the Army in 1861 Milroy: John B. Gordon: The horse was captured from Union General Robert H. Milroy at Second Winchester in 1863 and subsequently named after him. Moscow: Philip Kearny
Sheridan leads the charge at Five Forks (Frederick Phisterer, 1912). The American Civil War saw extensive use of horse-mounted soldiers on both sides of the conflict. They were vital to both the Union Army and Confederate Army for conducting reconnaissance missions to locate the enemy and determine their strength and movement, and for screening friendly units from being discovered by the enemy ...
Horses and Mules in the Civil War: A Complete History with a Roster of More Than 700 War Horses. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0237-0. Badeau, Adam (1887). Grant in Peace. From Appomattox to Mount McGregor. Hartford: S. S. Scranton & Co. Brands, H. W. (2012). The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses S. Grant in War and Peace. New York: Doubleday.
The 2nd Missouri Cavalry Regiment, also known officially as Merrill's Horse, [1] was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.The regiment was one of only a handful of Missouri regiments to be officially named as well as numbered.
John Buford Jr. (March 4, 1826 – December 16, 1863) was a United States Army cavalry officer. He fought for the Union during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general.
The popular Civil War movie The Horse Soldiers (1959), directed by noted John Ford, and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers, and the Harold Sinclair (1907-1966), earlier novel of historical fiction of the same name published in 1956 on which it is based, are somewhat fictionalized variations of the famous 1863 Grierson's Raid and the Battle of Newton's Station.
The Union raiders also captured and destroyed six wagons filled with food, artillery ammunition, and tools. As they approached Kingston, the Union horsemen discovered that Colonel John S. Scott's Confederate cavalry brigade was in the town, so Sanders crossed the Clinch River 8 mi (13 km) to the northeast to avoid it. [10] Simon B. Buckner
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: 5th Iowa Cavalry Regiment. Des Moines, Iowa: Dyer Publishing Co. pp. 1161– 1162; Sword, Wiley (1992). The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville. New York, N.Y.: University Press of Kansas for HarperCollins. ISBN 0-7006-0650-5. The Civil War Archive