The Cavalry at Gettysburg by Edward G. Longacre

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“Put the boys in, and may God forgive me for the order,” he responded. He saw the cadets as boys, young and inexperienced,” while his staff explained “it is too late” for other alternatives.” His staff offered only one choice: the VMI cadets. In the mid-afternoon, Bierle recounts, the Confederate advance was repulsed and “a gap had opened in the Confederate line … (and Breckinridge) lacked an experienced unit to send into the gap.” Senator from Kentucky, (1861) had earlier called out the cadets to serve as reserves as he put together a hodgepodge collection of troops to defend the valley against the Union threat led by German-American Major General Franz Sigel. Breckinridge, former vice president of the United States (1857-1861) and U.S. That said, Bierle’s account is excellently written and her wordsmithing paints a highly detailed account of the Confederate and Union soldiers in the midst of battle’s shot, shell, smoke and hell, as well as in the days and hours leading up to the encounter when the cadets of VMI were plunged into the midst of “desperate fighting.”Ĭonfederate Major General John C.

The Cavalry at Gettysburg by Edward G. Longacre