In the chaos of the American Civil War, reliability was often just as valuable as firepower - and this overlooked cavalry ...

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 ...

Though most Union cavalry units were formed in Northern states, some were also assembled in the South. Supplementary data on the number of cavalry units formed for the preservation of the United ...

John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union cavalry at age 18 in September 1862. Greensburg resident Richard Barnard ...

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 enlisted ...