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Cavalry at Kennesaw, Georgia.
Cavalry tactics evolved somewhat in the Civil War. The use of the classic cavalry saber decreased drastically. As John Mosby, one of the most celebrated cavalrymen of the Confederacy put it, "the only real use I ever heard of their [sabers] being put to was to hold a piece of meat over the fire for frying."
Cavalrymen led safer, less Spartan lives than their Infantry counterparts. This, combined with natural intra-service rivalries, led to a general resentment amongst the infantry for the cavalry. One Union soldier went so far as to describe the cavalry as "vampyres hanging on the infantry--doing but little fighting but first in for the spoils."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war_cavalry
Davis, William C. Rebels and Yankees: The Fighting Men of the Civil War. New York: Smithmark, 1991.
Cavalry at Kennesaw, Georgia.
Cavalry tactics evolved somewhat in the Civil War. The use of the classic cavalry saber decreased drastically. As John Mosby, one of the most celebrated cavalrymen of the Confederacy put it, "the only real use I ever heard of their [sabers] being put to was to hold a piece of meat over the fire for frying."
Cavalrymen led safer, less Spartan lives than their Infantry counterparts. This, combined with natural intra-service rivalries, led to a general resentment amongst the infantry for the cavalry. One Union soldier went so far as to describe the cavalry as "vampyres hanging on the infantry--doing but little fighting but first in for the spoils."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war_cavalry
Davis, William C. Rebels and Yankees: The Fighting Men of the Civil War. New York: Smithmark, 1991.