A few months’ service sufficed to do away with it and horses thereafter were issued indiscriminately.” He tells us, “Cavalry regiments were divided into three battalions, each consisting of four troops and commanded by a major. thus, as I remember it, troop ‘A’ had bays ‘B’ browns ‘C’ greys ‘D’ blacks and so on. He also gives us an inside view of the cavalry, such as when he tells us about how horses were distributed to the regiments: “The horses were sorted according to color, the intention being that each unit should have but one color, as near as practicable. The book is an excellent read, well written and providing a close-up view of someone who knew George Armstrong Custer and was an unabashed admirer of the general. This is James Harvey Kidd’s memoir of his Civil War experiences, later reissued as Riding With Custer.
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