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The Ringgold Cavalry was formed in 1847 and practiced until they answered the call in 1861, being inducted into the U.S. Army in June. They and the Washington Cavalry Company (organized in 1861) and five new companies (organized in 1862) were all from Washington County, Pennsylvania and were known as the Ringgold Battalion. In 1864 this Battalion became part of the newly organized Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry's 22nd regiment.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Elwood's Stories Of The Old Ringgold Cavalry, 1847-1865: The First Three Year Cavalry Of The Civil War John Williams Elwood The author, J. W. Elwood, 1914 History; United States; State & Local; Middle Atlantic; History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic; Travel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic; United States

The Ringgold Cavalry was formed in 1847 and practiced until they answered the call in 1861, being inducted into the U.S. Army in June. They and the Washington Cavalry Company (organized in 1861) and five new companies (organized in 1862) were all from Washington County, Pennsylvania and were known as the Ringgold Battalion. In 1864 this Battalion became part of the newly organized Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry's 22nd regimnent.

22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry

In this book, William C. Davis narrates one of the most memorable and crucial of the engagements fought for control of the strategically vital Shenandoah Valley -- a battle that centered on the farming community of New Market. There, Confederate forces under the command of General John C. Breckinridge defeated the numerically superior army commanded by the Union's hapless General Franz Sigel. Outnumbered by a margin of four to one at the beginning of the conflict, Breckinridge was desperate for additional men. He sent out a call for assistance to the Virginia Military Institute, and the school responded by sending 258 members of its Corps of Cadets into battle -- some of them as young as fifteen years old. In the action that followed, 57 of them would be killed or wounded. In vivid detail, The Battle of New Market tells of Breckinridge's audacious domination of the battlefield and of Sigel's tragic ineptitude; of the opposing troops, both seasoned and untried; of the fate of prisoners and of the wounded; and, perhaps most memorably, of the gallantry of the cadets who marched from the classrooms of VMI directly into the heat of battle.