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"United States Cavalry" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00000894, (accessed April 5, 2025).

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The branch of the United States Army comprised of soldiers mounted on horseback. Included regular army, volunteer state units, and partisan rangers.

Philip St. George Cooke, Cavalry Tactics, or Regulations for the Instruction, Formations, and Movements of the Cavalry of the Army and Volunteers of the United States, vol. 1 and 2 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861).

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