Format:
Book
Title:
Bugles, boots, and saddles : exploits of the U.S. Cavalry / edited by Stephen Brennan.
Publisher, Date:
New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2017]
Description:
xi, 223 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects:
United States. Army. Cavalry -- History.
Cavalry -- United States -- History.
Other Author:
Brennan, Stephen, editor. active 2003
Contents:
Introduction -- Part one: Classic U.S. Cavalry arms, tactics, and practices (Arms ; Saber versus revolver ; The cavalry charge ; Analects of classic cavalry tactics and practices of the Civil War era).
Part two: Colonial horse soldiers (Revolutionary War cavalry ; Campaign of 1776 ; Campaign of 1777 ; Campaign of 1778 ; Campaigns of 1779-1781).
Part three: Mounted troops of the Mexican War (Thornton captured ; Mason killed ; Palo Alto ; May's charge at Resaca de la Palma ; Rio Grande crossed ; Regiment of mounted riflemen raised ; Taylor at Monterey ; Cavalry operations in California ; Kearney invades New Mexico ; Kearney moves on California ; Mexican success at Encarnacion ; Scott invades ; Mexican irregulars ; Cavalry operations near Mexico City ; Fall of the City of Mexico ; Doniphan's march to Chihuahua ; Taos ; Fight at Huamantla ; Lane's night march after Santa Anna).
Part four: Civil War cavalry (Battle at Booneville ; Custer at Gettysburg ; With Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley ; Third battle at Winchester).
Part five: Indian wars (Forsyth and the Rough Riders of Sixty-eight ; The Buffalo Soldiers fight at Beaver Creek ; Sitting Bull's account of the battle at the Little Bighorn ; A chase ; General Miles forces Chief Joseph to yield: a graphic account).
Part six: Sunset of the horse soldier (The Rough Rides) at San Juan -- Appendix: Daily life of a U.S. cavalryman.
LCCN:
2017027931
ISBN:
9781510704480
1510704485
Other Number:
914219427
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3554720
Call Number:
357/.1840973
Course Reserves:
0
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