Robert M. Utley, Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848–1865 (1967, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981), pp. 281–340, provides an overview of the service of Civil ...
In The Horse Soldiers, which involves a little-known incident in the Civil War, all these elements are present. Give John Ford a company of brawny men, let him train his cameras on the US cavalry ...
The 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, United States Volunteers, is not a well-known outfit in the history of the Civil War, but it fought alongside General Sherman and served as his ...