Talk:Cavalry in the American Civil War

Mounted Infantry
Note that Buford, although fighting dismounted as did mounted infantry, followed standard cavalry procedures and formations (videttes, skirmish lines with cavalry spacing, etc.). The article implies that he used mounted infantry tactics, which involved standard infantry formations (often with massed troops in double rank) and the usage of rifles. Perhaps, the best example of mounted infantry tactics at Gettysburg was Jenkins' brigade on East Cavalry Field. Scott Mingus 12:03, 23 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Go ahead and make your proposed changes, but I'd recommend that you choose a famous example, rather than assuming Gettysburg is the operative point in this example. I doubt that many readers of this article would have any familiarity with Jenkins. Hal Jespersen 18:14, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Equipment
I removed a sentence that had a citation request:
 * Under typical conditions on the march, cavalry could cover 35 miles (56 km) in an eight-hour day.

I originally wrote this article based in no small part on notes I took at a 2005 cavalry seminar at the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. I have been unable to find a printed secondary source for a citation, so I have removed the sentence until someone can find one. Hal Jespersen (talk) 21:58, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

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Confederate cavalry
Under ‘Confederate Cavalry’, you say: Furthermore, Southern society was more stratified, which made the soldiers more accustomed to a hierarchy of command and were generally considered more suited to the martial lifestyle. That seems to reflect the Southern military spirit in general, not specifically cavalrymen.

I might suggest instead: Southern society was more rural, with the young men more naturally accustomed to the riding and shooting life. Valetude (talk) 19:33, 23 December 2018 (UTC)