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Tango01 | 11 Oct 2022 9:28 p.m. PST |
… to Williamsburg "WILLIAMSBURG — And as Union Provost Marshal David Cronin recalled in his memoirs, the blue-clad horsemen had decorated themselves and their mounts with "spoils taken not for their value, but in the spirit of wanton mischief.
"One had adorned his horse with net armor made out of a hoop skirt; another wore a lady's 'skoop-bonnet' with a huge bow. A large number wore stove pipe beaver hats of antique model, piling them up upon one another." Known as "Kill Cavalry" Kilpatrick for the wanton casualties his command had sustained during the Battle of Gettysburg and other actions, the flamboyant West Point graduate of 1861 was no stranger to the Peninsula…" Main page
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