A history of the great age of United States cavalry Author Charles D. Rhodes has written a superbly concise and incisive book on the formation and activities of the Union Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac. It naturally chronicles all the engagements in which union cavalry was involved, including Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and many more, to the defeat of the Confederacy. The accounts are written in a spare and thorough style which ensures the reader is able to gain a highly informed overview of the subject. This makes this book an important and essential reference work for anyone interested in the campaigns and manoeuvrings of the horse soldiers during the great American Civil War.