Sunday, July 31, 2016

Role of Union Cavalry in the Atlanta Campaign, The: Robert Blake Leach (link)

The Role of Union Cavalry in the Atlanta Campaign
Major Robert Blake Leach 
Master's Thesis, University of Kentucky, 1980; pub. Ft. Leavenworth, 1994.
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a284554.pdf

I go back to this thesis quite often and have used it as a source. It is a helpful summary and is easy to read (clear, well written). Among other things, it makes a significant point about technological advances during the Civil War, which began to impact the traditional role of cavalry.

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