While cavalry units typically encounter no issues establishing contact with enemy forces, they often face difficulties providing rapid and accurate reports due to communication limitations.

An uneducated farm-boy who became the Civil War’s most brilliant cavalry officer, Nathan Bedford Forrest reportedly had 30 horses shot out from under him. Enlisting as a private in a mounted ...

Morgan had one goal in the American Civil War, and that was to harass and hinder the Union Army as it invaded the South.