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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 2 (search)
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the Federal cavalry its organization and equipment Charles D. Rhodes, Captain, General Staff, United States Army
Boots and saddles ---third division, cavalry corps, army of the Potomac, 1864
A spreading section of the Federal cavalry organization in 1864:
At Belle Plain Landing on the Potomac lay a chief base of supplies for Grant's armies in the spring of 1864.
On April 4th Sheridan had been given charge of all the cavalry.
He had found the corps much run down and the horses in poor condition.
In a month he had effected a decided change for the better in the condition and morale of his ten thousand men, and was begging to be allowed to use them as an independent corps to fight the Confederate cavalry.
Though they had been relieved of much of the arduous picket duty that they formerly performed, they were still considered as auxiliaries, to protect the flanks and front of the infantry.
On May 7th Grant's army advanced with a view to taking Spotsylvania Co
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 4 (search)
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raids of the Federal cavalry in the East. Charles D. Rhodes, Captain, General Staff, United States Army
Well-conditioned mounts, equipped for a long raid 1862
Federal cavalry leaving camp: the arm that dealt a final blow to the Confederacy.
The well-filled bags before and behind each trooper indicate a long and hard trip in store.
Both the Confederate and Federal cavalry distinguished themselves by their endurance on their arduous and brilliant raids.
The amount of dest
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 5 (search)
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Federal raids and expeditions in the West Charles D. Rhodes, Captain, General Staff, United States Army
A blockhouse on the Tennessee
Six hundred miles in sixteen days
Seventeen hundred men who marched 600 miles in sixteen days, from Vicksburg to Baton Rouge.
On April 17, 1863, Grant despatched Grierson on a raid from LaGrange, Tennessee, southward as a means of diverting attention from his own movements against Vicksburg, and to disturb the Confederate line of supplies from the East.
Grierson destroyed sixty miles of tracks and telegraph, numberless stores and munitions of war, and brought his command safely through to Baton Rouge.
These two pictures by Lytle, the Confederate Secret Service agent at Baton Rouge, form one of the most remarkable feats of wet-plate photography.
The action continued as he moved his camera a trifle to the right, and the result is a veritable moving picture.
In the photograph on the left-hand page, only the first troop is dismou
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 7 (search)
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partisan rangers of the Confederacy Charles D. Rhodes, Captain Generally Staff, United States Army
After a visit by the Confederate raiders — on the Federal line of communication in Virginia, 1862
Colonel John S. Mosby and some of his men
Speaking likenesses of Colonel John S. Mosby, the famous Confederate independent leader and his followers — chiefly sons of gentlemen attracted to his standard by the daring nature of his operations.
His almost uniform success, with the spirit of romance which surrounded his exploits, drew thousands of recruits to his leadership.
Usually his detachments were small--twenty to eighty men. The names and locations in the group are as follows: Top row, left to right: Lee Herverson, Ben Palmer, John Puryear, Tom Booker, Norman Randolph, Frank Raham; second row: Parrott, John Troop, John W. Munson, Colonel John S. Mosby, Newell, Necly, Quarles; third row: Walter Gosden, Harry T. Sinnott, Butler, Gentry.
Fairfax Court House, after
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 8 (search)
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cavalry pickets, scouts and couriers Charles D. Rhodes, Captain, General Staff, United States Army
A veteran scout of the thirteenth New York cavalry
Why Federal cavalry history began late: cavalry with infantry on provost-guard duty.
These four Federal troopers holding their horses, side by side with an equal number of infantry, are typical of the small detachments that split up the cavalry into units of little value during the first two years of the war. The cavalry also furnished guides, orderlies, and grooms for staff officers.
The authorities divided it up so minutely among corps, division, and brigade commanders as completely to subvert its true value.
It was assigned to accompany the slow-moving wagon-trains, which could have been equally well guarded by an infantry detail, and was practically never used as a coherent whole.
Detachments from its strength were constantly increased, and it was hampered by instructions which crippled it for all useful purp
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 10 (search)
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cavalry battles and charges Charles D. Rhodes, Captain, General Staff, United States Army
On the way to the battle of Gettysburg company L, second regulars : ammunition-train of the third division, cavalry corps.
The Second fought in the reserve Brigade under General Merritt, during the second day of the battle.
The leading figures in the picture are First-Sergeant Painter and First-Lieutenant Dewees.
Few photographs show cavalry thus, in column.
The wagons with the right of way: the thirteenth New York cavalry drilling near Washington.
The ammunition-train had the right of way over everything else in the army, short of actual guns and soldiers, when there was any possibility of a fight.
The long, cumbrous lines of commissary wagons were forced to draw off into the fields to the right and left of the road, or scatter any way they could, to make way for the ammunition-train.
Its wagons were always marked, and were supposed to be kept as near the troops as p
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 13 (search)
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mounting the cavalry of the Union army Charles D. Rhodes
An orderly with an officer's mount
A thousand Federal cavalry horses: talking it over.
Lovers of horses will appreciate, in this photograph of 1864, the characteristic friendly fashion in which the cavalry mounts are gathering in deep communion.
The numerous groups of horses in the corrals of the great depot at Giesboro, D. C., are apparently holding a series of conferences on their prospects in the coming battles