NF Cavalry at Gettysburg

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

A thread to prompted me to wonder: what is the best study of cavalry at Gettysburg?

I emphasize the at. Not Stuart's ride, or the retreat/pursuit to the Potomac, or the period leading up to the battle. Specifically about what the cavalry - especially the AOTP's cavalry - were up to on July 1-4 and why.

Most single-volume works about Gettysburg seem to ignore the cavalry once Buford turns things over to Reynolds on the morning of July 1, until Stuart finally arrives and picks a fight on the afternoon of July 3. This gives a reader the impression the Union cavalry was being wasted, especially with Stuart absent.

I found three modern books that cover the cavalry for the entire campaign (June 9 - July 14) which presumably include good coverage of the battle itself:
Maps of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign by Bradley Gottfried
The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign by Edward Longacre
Horse Soldiers at Gettysburg: The Cavalryman's View of the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign by Daniel Murphy

And then there are the three books by @Eric Wittenberg (five when you include Plenty of Blame and One Continuous Fight), which would seem like they cover most or of the activity between the three of them:
The Devil's To Pay: John Buford at Gettysburg
Protecting the Flank at Gettysburg: The Battles for Brinkerhoff's Ridge and East Cavalry Field
Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions: Farnsworth's Charge, South Cavalry Field, and the Battle of Fairfield

There are also a number of other standalone books focused on the events on East Cavalry Field, of various levels of merit depending on whether they exaggerate Custer's and/or Stuart's role.

Is there anything missing from this list? Any good essays on this topic from a Gettysburg essay collection?

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

I think that Dan Murphy's book is far superior to Longacre's. I can't say enough good things about it.