“It was under my administration, [as head of the Cavalry Bureau] …that the Spencer magazine carbine was adopted as the standard [carbine] for the cavalry service, and the division which I commanded in Sheridan’s cavalry was the first in the world completely supplied with that or any similar arm.” So wrote Maj. Gen. James H.…
Robert E. Lee’s Reluctant Warrior: The Life of Cavalry Commander and Railroad Businessman Brigadier General Williams Carter Wickham. By Sheridan R. Barringer. ISBN 978-1-945602-25-2. Columbia, SC: Fox Run Publishing, 2024. Maps. Images. Bibliography. Index. Pp. 255. $32.95 (hardback). By the late afternoon of September 22, 1864, the Confederate Valley Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Jubal…
Readers who are not fans of George Custer may soon groan that I have changed the focus of my Small but Important Riots blog to a Custer blog. Not true. I have spent a lot of time with Custer for the last year, as I have worked on a couple presentations, and he will appear…
For many years now, my focus of study has been the development of the Union cavalry through 1863. During the last several years, however, I have prepared a couple presentations on the cavalry postwar. While researching those programs, several carbine related documents have caught my eye. Following the Grand Review, the men of the Michigan…
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