The Third Arkansas Cavalry was organized in October 1863 at Little Rock, becoming one of four Union cavalry regiments raised in Arkansas during the Civil War. Led by Col. Abraham Ryan, the Third ...

During the first three days of July in 1863, the largest battle ever fought in North America occurred in the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. More than 160,000 men from the North and the South ...

Grimes Davis rode through the dark like a man convinced Providence had tapped him on the shoulder, turning a doomed ...

With no monument and no book to mark their service, Bob Angelovich said politicians and time had forgotten the young men who comprised Connecticut’s only Civil War cavalry regiment. “Since these guys ...

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Authorized by the Union War Department in July 1861, the 5th NY Cavalry was also known as the Ira Harris Cavalry. Col. Othneil De Forrest sought to raise a regiment that would serve for three years, ...

Three regiments of Union infantry, a battery of the 3rd Rhode Island Artillery and the 75th Ohio Mounted Infantry were at Baldwin in Aug. 9, 1864. The infantry, which includes the 34th, 35th and 102nd ...

This article, "Col. Colt's Revolving Rifle in the Civil War," appeared originally in the March 2004 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and ...

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — The Army is offering a cash reward for help finding anyone involved in stealing the American and German flags from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment’s headquarters and raising a ...