sacho12
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Hello.
Friends, I wanted to ask for help on the role of cavalry in the civil war on both sides of the conflict.
Surely this question is well known to all of you, but I, who lived on the other side of the world and collected the saber of the US cavalry, including the period of the Civil War, were always interested in this question.
The fact is that I found information that the role of cavalry in the United States after the civil war, including during the so-called "Indian wars", was reduced to the role of mobile mounted detachments that used multi-shot rifles and revolvers and did not use swords at all . I do not know how true this is. But I'm interested in the role of cavalry during the Civil War and it is the question of using sabers in attacks and battles.
I read, as on the Internet, a commentary of one person who showed a saber of light cavalry of the model of 1860, belonging to his great-grandfather, a participant in the civil war. According to the stories of this great-grandfather who retold in the family, he used the sword during the war only once and then to fry the pheasant at the stake.
If the swords were not used by cavalry during the Civil War, why then they were released in such quantities as in the North and in the South.
Thankful in advance for the interest in my topic and the answers in it.
Sincerely, Vladimir.
Friends, I wanted to ask for help on the role of cavalry in the civil war on both sides of the conflict.
Surely this question is well known to all of you, but I, who lived on the other side of the world and collected the saber of the US cavalry, including the period of the Civil War, were always interested in this question.
The fact is that I found information that the role of cavalry in the United States after the civil war, including during the so-called "Indian wars", was reduced to the role of mobile mounted detachments that used multi-shot rifles and revolvers and did not use swords at all . I do not know how true this is. But I'm interested in the role of cavalry during the Civil War and it is the question of using sabers in attacks and battles.
I read, as on the Internet, a commentary of one person who showed a saber of light cavalry of the model of 1860, belonging to his great-grandfather, a participant in the civil war. According to the stories of this great-grandfather who retold in the family, he used the sword during the war only once and then to fry the pheasant at the stake.
If the swords were not used by cavalry during the Civil War, why then they were released in such quantities as in the North and in the South.
Thankful in advance for the interest in my topic and the answers in it.
Sincerely, Vladimir.