Cobblestone articles from December 2002

Cobblestone archives from December 2002

Editor's note.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
December 1, 2002... The Civil War (1861-1865) was the first time in America's history that large numbers of men fought on horseback. And yet, the idea of organizing and training cavalry units was dismissed initially. Many Americans believed that the war between...

Army hoofbeats.
December 1, 2002... In memory of the one and one half million horses and mules of the Union and Confederate armies who were killed, were wounded, or died from disease in the Civil War --Inscription on a cavalry horse statue sculpted by Tessa Pullan in 1996...

The cavalry earns its spurs.
December 1, 2002... In America, cavalry came of age in the Civil War. It played a part in one of the first significant battles of that war--the First Battle of Manassas (also known as Bull Run) in 1861. Confederate colonel J.E.B. Stuart led five hundred troopers...

Cavalry counts. (Quote of the Month).(unravel the code)
December 1, 2002... In October 1862, Union major general George McClellan was poised to lead the Army of the Potomac into battle against the Army of the Confederacy. Although his army was well supplied, McClellan telegraphed his commander in chief that he needed...

Union cavalry leaders.(Biography)
December 1, 2002... Kentuckian John Buford graduated from West Point in 1848 and served on the frontier as a captain in the Second Dragoons. During the early part of the Civil War, Buford was a staff officer in Washington, D.C. He did not see combat until the...

Confederate cavalry leaders.(Biography)
December 1, 2002... Virginian Turner Ashby had no military experience before the Civil War, but he quickly became Major General Stonewall Jackson's best-known cavalry leader. The personal courage Ashby displayed in the Shenandoah Valley campaign was admired by...

The battle of brandy station.
December 1, 2002... At the start of the Civil War, the Confederacy's cavalry was thought to be much stronger than the Union's cavalry. That perception changed, however, in June 1863, when mounted Union troops took on the Confederates at Brandy Station, Virginia....

Did you know?(Civil War trivia)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Confederate cavalry scout John Mosby captured a Union brigadier general by sneaking into his headquarters at night and waking the general up with a spank on his bottom. In the spring of 1862, German American Carl Schurz offered to...

Glory riders at Gettysburg.
December 1, 2002... The famous Gettysburg campaign began with a raid by Union cavalry. Learning that Confederate general Robert E. Lee and his men were on the move, Union brigadier general Joseph Hooker ordered his cavalry unit to intercept Lee's troops. In a...

Battling over the Shenandoah.
December 1, 2002... Both North and South needed the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War. Situated between the Allegheny Mountains on the west and the Blue Ridge Mountains on the east, the valley was the Confederacy's breadbasket. Its fertile fed the South's...

African Americans enlist.
December 1, 2002... By the end of the Civil War, the various U.S. armed forces had seen the services of nearly 200,000 African Americans. Some were free Northerners, some were escaped slaves, and some were former slaves who lived in areas taken over by Union...

The cavalry rides on!
December 1, 2002... When the Civil War ended in 1865, the country once more turned its attention to westward expansion. The U.S. Army added four new cavalry regiments, of which two were manned by African American troopers. The Army once more found itself spread...

Brain ticklers.(the Civil War)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Give your brain a little tickle to see how well you read and understood this issue on the role of cavalry in the Civil War. If you believe the answer to be false, give yourself the ultimate test and see whether you can explain why it is false....

Snow. .(Poem)
December 1, 2002... Snow Snow is nice. It looks like rice. It falls from the sky. I wonder what it would taste like if it was in pie? Steven Contraras Newport, Washington

As I Gaze.(Poem)
December 1, 2002... As I Gaze As I gaze outside and look at the trees, I see leaves of green. As I gaze down, I see the grass as wet as a stream. As I gaze up, I see fluffy snow-white clouds moving around, and the...

Skating.(Poem)
December 1, 2002... Skating I remember stepping on the ice for the first time. I remember falling but always getting back up. I remember having to do it over and over again. I remember jumping and spinning ...

The Flag. .(Poem)
December 1, 2002... The Flag Red and white stripes of bravery and liberty. Fifty stars floating in a great pool of justice. All flying in the wind for everyone to see. Connor Hardy Stony Brook, New York

War. .(Poem)
December 1, 2002... War War is soldiers fighting, guns shooting, people crying, planes bombing, people missing, people dying, people fighting, people killing, hills smoking, Taliban hiding, bombs...

Dear Cobblestonians. (Letters).(the National Archives)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... The National Archives and Records Administration (more commonly known as the National Archives) is located on the Mall in Washington, D.C. This main building holds the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution,...

Jeb Stuart: Confederate Cavalry General.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Lynda Pflueger (Springfield, New Jersey: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1998), part of the Historical American Biographies series, explores the life of this horseman, from his Virginia childhood to his West Point education to his Civil War battles...

Band of Brothers: West Point in the Civil War.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Thomas Fleming (New York: Walker and Company, 1988) focuses on the lives of the cadets, trained at the U.S. Military Academy, who later became Civil War officers (representing both the North and South)--in particular, Grant, Lee, Custer, and...

Combat Uniforms of the Civil War, Volumes One and Two: the Federal Army; Volumes Three and Four: the Confederate Army.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Mark Lloyd (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1999) features the uniforms worn by individual units of the armies fighting for the North and South, as well as their battlefield activities. Grade 5 and up.

Who Was Who in the Union.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Stewart Sifakis (New York: Facts On File, 1988) is one of two reference volumes that provide biographical sketches and descriptions--including the action that was seen and the different promotions achieved by officers--of the principal...

Who Was Who in the Confederacy.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Stewart Sifakis (New York: Facts On File, 1988) is the second reference volume of Civil War biographical information, covering famous Confederate participants. Grade 5 and up.

The United States Cavalry: an Illustrated History.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Gregory J. W. Urwin (New York: Blandford Press, 1983) discusses the role that mounted troops have played in America's wars. Color pictures portray the uniforms and equipment used by cavalrymen from 1776 to 1942. Grade 8 and up.

The Cavalry Battle That Saved the Union: Custer vs. Stuart at Gettysburg.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by Paul D. Walker (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 2002) details the cavalry conflict that decided the fate of the Civil War. Grade 8 and up.

Glory at a Gallop: Tales of the Confederate Cavalry.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... by William R. Brooksher and David K. Snider (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 2002) describes the feats and exploits of the cavalry leaders of the South through informative stories on J.E.B. Stuart, Nathan B. Forrest, and more....

The Civil War. (More Media).(Video Recording Review)
December 1, 2002... The Civil War, a video documentary, contains archival photographs, personal experiences of soldiers and civilians, and battleground scenes that re create the war between the North and South. For more information, contact PBS Video, 1320...

On the web.(information about United States Civil War, Cavalry)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... Check out the United States Civil War Center at Louisiana State University by going on-line to www.cwc.lsu.edu. To accomplish its mission of promoting the study of the Civil War from Northern and Southern perspectives, this site helps direct...

Places to visit.(United States Cavalry Association, United States Cavalry School)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2002... U.S. Cavalry Association, Fort Riley, Kansas. Housed in the building that was once the headquarters of the U.S. Army Cavalry School, the association's museum preserves and displays cavalry artifacts from the Revolutionary War to the present....

From the archives.(magazine back-issues covering Civil War personalities and history)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
December 1, 2002... To read more about famous Civil War personalities, pick up these issues of COBBLESTONE: Robert E. Lee (COB9309), Stonewall Jackson (COB9704), Ulysses S. Grant (COB9510), Abraham Lincoln (COB9405), and Jefferson Davis, 1808-1889 (COB0101). For...