Hoffman-1-C
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Author: Elliott W. Hoffman
History of the First Vermont Cavalry Volunteers in the War of the Great Rebellion
Army of the Potomac Series
American Civil War
Publisher : Butternut & Blue
Hardback
Pages : 355
After ten months in the Department of Washington, losing and winning skirmishes with partisan guerrilla John S. Mosby, the Vermonters became part of Elon Farnswothís First Brigade of Judson Kilpatrickís Third Cavalry Division and served with that unit throughout the Gettysburg Campaign. Farnsworth died at the head of Wellsís battalion on the afternoon of the third day of the battle while making a headlong charge on Confederate infantry that was ordered by Kilpatrick. Gettysburg became the bloodiest day of the war for the 1st Vermont Cavalry. As organized throughout 1863, the Vermonters employed two battalions of light cavalry carrying a mixture of Colt and Remington revolvers, sabres, and a few men armed with Sharps carbines. The Third Battalion was the dragoon battalion as all of the men carried carbines, but this battalion was detached at the headquarters of the Sixth Corps from October 1863 to April 1864 (Company M remained as Second Corps escort until September 1864).