History comes to life as we metal detect the very battlefield where a Civil War cavalry officer met his fate. This site holds hidden relics from a crucial moment in history, offering a glimpse ...

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 ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. George F. Hofmann, Through Mobility We Conquer: The Mechanization of U.S. Cavalry (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006); Matthew ...

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 le ...