Cavalry

Notorious, a hell on earth, a cesspool, a death camp, and infamous have all been used by prisoners and critics to describe Andersonville Prison, constructed to house Union prisoners of war in 1864, and all descriptions apply....

Adam, a Southern gentleman, knew the call to arms was near when President Lincoln asked for 100,000 men to stop secession and rebellion in the South. He joined the Union Cavalry - but not before he married his best, and only, friend....

Spring, 1865. The Southern armies are close to defeat. Union Cavalry Commander Philip Sheridan has loosed his scouts into the Virginia countryside in search of an opportunity to intercept and destroy General Robert E. Lee's rebel army and bring the war to an end....

The Girl I Left Behind is an action love story set in North Alabama during the Civil War. When the Union Army invades Marlbridge, Alabama, in the spring of 1862, Alexandra Corbin disguises herself as a man and joins a band of Confederate cavalry....

Despite the fact that the Civil War was fought nearly 150 years ago, it remains a polarizing topic for the country to this day....

On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry into the valley of the Little Bighorn. By sunset, Custer and five of his companies lay dead - killed in battle against Sioux and Cheyenne warriors....

Since the Battle of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) has possessed one of the most unique places in American history....

On the day after Thanksgiving, 1868, George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry attack a sleeping Cheyenne village on the banks of the Washita....

True story of the firsthand account of my tour of duty. From March 7, 1970, to January 30, 1971, with the First Cavalry, a rifleman with Charlie Company, First Battalion, Fifth Cavalry....

Ezekial McNair, wise beyond his years, wrestles with an incompetent superior while training a company in the strategies of cavalry fighting and Yankee supply capture to keep his troops healthy and functioning....

When Michael Mulligan and Maria Burke flee Ireland during the famine, she leaves her tyrannical husband, Nathaniel Burke. Maria dies of ship fever on Grosse Isle. Years later, Michael Mulligan, 80, finally returns to Ireland to buy the rotting Burke mansion and burn it to the ground....

William Benet Sterling and his best friend Jacob (Jake) Brown grew up together on small farms on the Kansas prairie. Their future as farmers seemed simplistic, comfortable, inevitable, and boring. The day they rode into the sleepy town of Manhattan the air was electric....

Following the Indian uprising known as the Red River War, Fort Reno (in what would become western Oklahoma) was established in 1875 by the United States government....

Ginny was dead; killed by a young Federal soldier's musket ball that sent a call for revenge to Matt Jorgensen, a cowboy on the run from the law from Montana....

In 1916, Mexican bandit Pancho Villa raided the southwestern border town of Columbus, New Mexico....

The spring reorganization of 1863 was the start of a new era for the Federal cavalry. It began to prove itself in a succession of engagements....

Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman with Custer’s Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War has been hailed as one of the richest, most reliable accounts of Union cavalry operations in the Eastern theater of the Civil War, ranging from the raid on Richmond to Appomattox....

One man finds himself torn between two cultures in this sweeping tale of frontier life in post–Civil War era Texas....

Captain Nathan Kelso was on the brink of drunken oblivion. He'd lost the respect of his commanding officer, and Company "C" had been unofficially disbanded....

In the most popular narratives of the Civil War, Union Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman are celebrated as the Union’s most successful generals and men who revolutionized total warfare with the use of scorched earth tactics....