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Bringing obscurity into focusThu, 11 Apr 2019 15:39:26 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22By: Jeff Mancini
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Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:52:31 +0000http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=658#comment-16427OK lets just put a bit of balance into this thread. Confederate cavalry operations in the west were obviously not on par with the units that fought in the east. As established neither were the Federal’s. Literally the west was the “B” team. However the western contested borders were immensely larger than the eastern theatre thus the variance in goals and objectives. Cavalry fought much more in a classic sense in the east…a product of the West Point trained officers (the Virginian’s, Carolinan’s) who donned the grey and put their allegiance in state rights and an agrarian lifestyle vs the northern strength of a strong centralized government and an economy on a fast track toward industrialization. OK I’m saying it… the eastern theatre is more sophisticated more cultured,more developed.Strategically the south could accomplish much more capturing Philadelphia than Cincinnati.The eastern theatre was where this conflict would be decided on the stretch of real estate between Richmond and Washington with spillover into Pennsylvania and Maryland. This is where the best troops were positioned with the best officers and the the best equipment. In the west the dynamic was less pronounced due to the smaller units competing on much larger swaths of land. In the Confederate philosophy of thinking quality would prevail over quantity. That belief is much harder to achieve on larger chunks of real estate with less roads, trails and rail.This concept of a force of Esprit d’corps as romanticized by the Confederates first two years of unfettered success against northern horseman, the south naturally embraced this axiom. It wasn’t until Kelly’s Ford that the momentum shifted.As the blockade bit into the ability of the south to replenish itself the superiority of the northern cavalry both in quantity and quality would therefore prevail no matter how disruptive the Confederate efforts evolved. The Confederate effort in 1862 as exemplified by Stuart’s ride is completely different from Hampton’s efforts in 1864 at Haw’s Shop or Trevilian Station. The same can be said of Rebel operations in the west. I conclude that Forrest came into the fray late, achieved marginal if not nothing more than delaying tactic results, employed unconventional if not un-winnable tactics and eventually succumbed to being on the losing side by the lack of a centralized coordinated vision. The nature of the southern form of thinking in its rudimets was to reject centralized thinking that this was the component of states rights and continuing a rural and agrarian lifestyle the literal cornerstone of southern rebellion.Thus having clearly defined and attainable goals and objectives would not be possible without a centralized authority who could command and dictate policy and procedures. Robert E. Lee could pull this off. In the west no one personality emerged to compliment that type of authority with Lee’s sheer virtuosity.Instead we get the literal cult like status of the Forrest’s, Morgan’s,Wheeler’s etc that is etched as more bark than bite more myth than reality, more style than substance.To be honest the idea that cavalry could operate independantly, autonomously and without coordination with infantry is why for example I despise Meade for not commmitting his two regiments to the Sheridan effort against Hampton at Haw’s Shop late May 1864.That one pigheaded move cost the lives of thousands of Union soldiers. Custer saved the day in that action however if Meade would have committed his two regiments of infantry that day perhaps Lee is a bit confused as to Grant’s intention to swing towards Cold Harbor. Instead the cautious and somewhat of a cavalry operation skeptic, Meade declines to assist and deploy to help Sheridan . Now take this discussion into the west and many examples of the lack of coordination in mustering one’s forces between branches can be chronicaled on both a blue and grey side.Probably more so on the southern side as the discussion crystallizes with the success of Grierson and Wilson that achieved some results but the southern cavalry despite getting their licks in just did not have the resources to do the same as often and as effectively.
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