Van’s Wild Ride: Green Troopers and Green Horses
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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The cavalry volume of Francis Trevelyan Miller's 1911 Photographic History of the Civil War included Capt. George "Van" Vanderbilt’s vivid account of green cavalrymen struggling with horses and gear near Fredericksburg, capturing the chaos, humor, and hard lessons of soldiers learning war in real time. Here's the longer version of the anecdote included in the history of Vanderbilt's 10th New York Cavalry.
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