Saturday, 27 November 2010

More on the Cavalry at Antietam

In a correction to my last, I now know that the orbat of the Cavalry Division contained in the OR is early October 1862. The organisation on the field at Antietam was:

Cavalry Brigade (Pleasonton)
5th US Cavalry (all 12 coys?), 8th Illinois (all 12 coys?), 1st Massachusetts (8 coys, A-H), 4th Pennsylvania (all 10 coys?), 6th Pennsylvania (7 coys only) and 3rd Indiana Cavalry (all 6 coys?)

(8th Pennsylvania Cavalry arrives 18th after a recce towards Gettysburg, PA)

Thus I can make a stab on the strength on the strength of the cavalry in the centre. At 30 sabres per company there would be about 1,600 sabres in the centre. This being a question a posed over a year ago resolved.


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