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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 198 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 165 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 132 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 131 1 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 80 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 26, 1862., [Electronic resource] 56 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1863., [Electronic resource] 56 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 52 6 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 46 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 45 1 Browse Search
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ctive service. What we do object to, is the conversion of all troopers into that species of force. We cannot believe that a large proportion of our mount force should be cavalry of the line. How else we ever to follow up a beaten enemy, or to him from rallying and fighting again the after a reverse! In all the decided victories times, we believe, without exception, the be found, by those who shall look into the matter to have been rendered decisive by the employment of cavalry at the decisive moment.-- cavalry did not consist of mounted infantry, of housemen taught to rely on the spur and the sabre. We would remark, en passant, that some biographer of the late lamented General John Morgan attributes to him the invention of dismounting cavalry to fluent like infantry. Others attribute it to other officers of our army. But, in point of fact, it was the invention of none of them. They were infantry who gained the battle of King's mountain, eighty-three years ago.