Just after the Civil War, Union cavalry arrested Confederate Vice President ... It bars anyone who swore an oath to support the Constitution, and then engaged in insurrection or rebellion against ...

Lee briefly engaged Gen. Ulysses S ... intended to force his way through the Union lines. Initially, the Confederate cavalry had success, driving Union horsemen from their position atop a nearby ...

STUART's Confederate cavalry ... REYNOLDS found BUFORD's cavalry warmly engaged with the enemy, who had debouched his infantry through the mountains on the Cashtown road, but was being held ...

The march was uneventful until reaching Paintsville, Kentucky, where his cavalry engaged the Confederate cavalry at Jenny’s Creek on Jan. 6th, 1862. The Confederate withdrew to the forks of ...

On a January day in 1865, Company E of the United States Colored Cavalry was ambushed by a group of Confederate guerrillas ... yet the scoundrels engaged in the bloody work shot down their victims ...

The other, “Fighting Joe” Wheeler, the legendary Confederate cavalry general, led the cavalry units in Cuba, after being elected to Congress in 1880 from Alabama and working hard to bring ...

This particular event was the largest one-day cavalry battle in the history of the United States, according to NPS. The Confederate cavalry was led by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, while the Union cavalry ...

Monuments celebrate "the legend" of Confederate cavalry leader Nathan Bedford Forrest around the Rutherford County Courthouse at a time state leaders want his bust removed from the Tennessee Capitol.

With a chorus of rebel yells and the firing of pistols, more than 600 Confederate cavalry came swooping into New Windsor on July 9, 1864. The troop included 135 men from the 1st and 2nd Maryland ...

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 ...