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Civil War book
After Gettysburg by Robert Trout
Hardbound, 9" X 6", color dust jacket, 376 pages, ISBN 978-0-9794035-7-6 $26.00
In
After Gettysburg: Cavalry Operations in the
Eastern Theater from July 14, 1863 to
December 31, 1863, the cavalry forces of
both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of
Northern Virginia become the focal point.
With the Federal cavalry beginning to
realize its full potential and the
Confederate cavalry striving to maintain its
proud record, the six months between the
conclusion of the Gettysburg Campaign and
the end of the year proved a crucial time.
This period saw the infantry of both armies
virtually idle – so idle that the Army of
the Potomac detached two corps and the Army
of Northern Virginia one corps to the
Western Theater. However, the blue and the
gray cavalry continued to perform the vital
functions of reconnaissance and
counter-reconnaissance without which an army
might be seriously or completely
compromised. This volume explores these
nearly constant operations and the numerous
skirmishes and battles they precipitated.
Hopefully, a better understanding of the
cavalry’s service and of this particular
period of the war will emerge.
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