Time to Reload

[Gettmore]

 

[ColonelBuckwalter]

"Time out! We'll start the charge again when I get these caps on."

 

[JackADriscoll]

That shoe gun is a nice touch.

 

[bayouace]

Good detail.
Must have been nerve-racking when you had to reload with people shooting at you.

 

[JOHN42768]

That shoe gun is a nice touch.

Might be a tad uncomfortable bouncing up and down

 

[ColonelBuckwalter]

That shoe gun is a nice touch.

I didn't see the shoe gum. This has to be in Missouri.

 

[Patrick H]

The image does illustrate why so many guerrillas carried so many revolvers on their bodies and on their horses, and also seems to suggest why some regular cavalry fought dismounted.

 

[ColonelBuckwalter]

The image does illustrate why so many guerrillas carried so many revolvers on their bodies and on their horses, and also seems to suggest why some regular cavalry fought dismounted.

You make a good point about carrying a lot of pistols in guerilla warfare.

Cavalry fighting on foot; i never know if i should call ot mounted infantry or discounted cavalry. I believe both terms were used bit I'm not sure of the difference between the two. If it a name or an actual difference in a regiment. Either way I had always wondered what dragoon meant and that tactic of fighting off the hoof abd on foot comes from that concept, though a variation.

Forrest was very much for that style of fight. And I certainly wouldn't mind having one of those big .44 Colts or two you that rode on the saddle better than the hip.

Except for actions Custer, and Stewart I can't think of any big waving the saber type cavalry fights off hand. I'll have to read up!