E-Books →The Horse Soldier 1776-1943 Vol.I The Revolution, the War of 1812, the Early Frontier, 1776-1850

11 color plates, 96 b&w drawings, cavalry bugle calls. Covers the Revolutionary period, with a detailed account of the 'sires' of the United States Cavalry, the Continental Light Dragoons. Then come the War of 1812 and the formation of the United States Mounted Ranger Battalions and later the United States Dragoons. The uniforms, insignia, decorations, arms, horse equipment, accoutrements, and saddles are described and profusely illustrated. Appended are sections defining the nomenclature of the horse, horse equipment, and arms, as well as a roster of bugle calls. The author's color plates and meticulously detailed drawings, reproduced from actual uniforms and equipment and official government specification, show us the cavalryman as he actually looked, wherever he was stationed, whatever his war, wherever he was sent to be a horse soldier for his country.