![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() ![]() This comprehensively researched, well-written volume merits recognition from Civil War students and military historians.Ĭopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. His death from typhoid prevented the further successes that would almost certainly have been his as a cavalry commander. At Gettysburg, his eye for terrain determined the Union position, and his troopers held that position until the main army arrived. Buford applied that principle while commanding first a cavalry brigade, then a division, in the Army of the Potomac in 1862-1863. Serving on the Western frontier, he decided that whether cavalry fought mounted or on foot in a given instance mattered less than using its speed and mobility to be in the right place at the right time. John Buford graduated from West Point in 1848. This is one of Longacre's earliest books, but it still ranks as one of his best. Longacre adds to his status as a leading authority on Civil War cavalry (The Cavalry at Gettysburg Mounted Raids of the Civil War) with this definitive biography of one of its key leaders. Edward Longacre's The Cavalry at Gettysburg continues to deserve an honored place at the top of the Gettysburg canon, which is saying a lot considering how much has been published on America's most written-about battle. ![]()
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