id was set in the arguments array for the "side panel" sidebar. Defaulting to "sidebar-1". Manually set the id to "sidebar-1" to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/netscrib/public_html/civilwarcavalry/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4239id was set in the arguments array for the "footer" sidebar. Defaulting to "sidebar-2". Manually set the id to "sidebar-2" to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/netscrib/public_html/civilwarcavalry/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4239I dont know anything about Burnside’s use of cavalry, but I also dont folow your logic here. Are casualties a measure of good generalship?
]]>It was more like 5,000 or 6,000, but your point is nevertheless very well-taken. Thanks for pointing that out.
Eric
]]>sorry ’bout that.
]]>You can get away with foraging for your forage for a short time, but horses can and will lose weight and condition rapidly. This is a guess, but I’d think no more than two to three weeks of operations under these conditions before the animals wouldn’t be fit anything.
I have no idea how many horses Pope’s Cavalry had, but figure at least ten thousand? Foraging for that many horses would be a full time job in and of itself.
]]>Thanks for your kind words–I’m pleased to hear that you’re enjoying the book and that you find something worthwhile in it.
Funny you should mention this–my buddy J. D. Petruzzi and I had a discussion about covering the fighting in the Loudoun Valley in the fall of 1862 just this afternoon. As for the Federal cavalry on the Peninsula, my friend Bob O’Neill has been working on just that for some time.
Eric
]]>I question this. Compare the cavalry units in Pope’s army with those under Pleasanton in Maryland. I think you will find barely any overlap. Compare Pelasanton’s units to those that served on the peninsula and I think you will find they match. When Mac marched across Maryland, the bulk of what had been Pope’s cavalry remained with the forces defending Washington and operated in nothern Virginia.
]]>In fairness most of the cavalry that was with Mac had come from Pope’s army, and it really was in absolutely wretched condition. Read the reports from Bayard and Buford during the Second Bull Run Campaign, and you will see what I mean. Pope’s insistence that the cavalry live off the land combined with overwork left it in terrible and inefficient shape.
The truth is that Mac used it rather well just before Antietam–see Crampton’s Gap if you need an example–but seems to have dropped the ball a bit on the actual day of the battle.
That’s my take, anyway.
Eric
]]>Thanks for setting me straight.
Eric
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