… Cavalry Commanders Face Off
"As Union brigadier general George Armstrong Custer barked out orders, the troops of his Michigan Brigade perfected their defense, churning up the dust as they deployed. They had just captured a large number of Confederate wagons, caissons, horses, and prisoners. But they were behind enemy lines in Virginia. Southern cavalrymen had the 800 Michiganders surrounded, caught inside what one Union trooper called "a living triangle."
As enemy troops swirled around them, many of Custer's squadrons remained mounted—a requirement for quick counterthrusts—but some took to the ground. On the eastern edge of the encirclement, dismounted horsemen hurriedly knelt behind a fence-rail barricade, their Spencer repeating carbines glistening in the midmorning sun.
When the Confederates attacked, they suddenly seemed to be everywhere at once. According to Michigan trooper Harmon Smith, they were fighting "at the front, in the rear, at the right and at the left." Shouting above the incessant firing, a muddled officer asked Custer whether they should move the captured Rebel property to the rear. "Yes, by all means," the young general replied. "Where in hell is the rear?"…"
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The eagle's head made of Lincoln's hair
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