Clash of Cavalry

by Fairfax Davis Downey

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000GXHCXE
• Release Date: January 1959
• Publisher: New York: David McKay Company, 1959
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Clash of Cavalry

The Battle of Brandy Station was one of the significant cavalry battles of the Civil War. Downey's book is the major, if not the only, study. Though dated, it's still very useful. Downey intersperses general cavalry information, of great interest, with chapters on the battle. He doesn't make the tactical events of the battle itself very clear, but perhaps that's an impossible feat. Plenty of quotes and the lyrics to "If You Want to Have a Good Time Jine the Cavalry" keep the text vivid.