The Sixth U.S. Cavalry had its birth at the outbreak of the Civil War 
with its first action at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1862.  They fought in 
the Army of the Potomac under General Sheridan throughout the 
war.  From 1865 to 1871 the regiment was stationed in Austin and 
Fort Richardson, Texas, acting as both a federal policing unit in 
the Reconstruction military government and as protectors against
the Comanches along the frontier.  After 1871 they moved into
Kansas and the Indian Territory and in 1874 were under the command
of Col. Nelson A. Miles in his operations against the Comanches,
Cheyennes, and Kiowas.  The regiment was then stationed in Arizona
and New Mexico and spent the next ten years in operations against
the Apaches.  Their last action against the Indians was at Wounded
Knee in 1890.  Fighting did not come again until the short-lived
Spanish-American war in 1898 where the unit was prominent in the
battle of Santiago. The author was a 2nd Lieutenant when he joined
the Sixth Cavalry in 1874 and remained on their rolls for his entire 
career.  In 1900 he wrote this history of the unit and had it 
privately published in Baltimore.  Unfortunately a large part of the 
edition was destroyed by fire, make the original book one of the 
scarcest and most expensive histories of a major military unit.

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WILLIAM H. CARTER was born in Tennessee in 1851.  He graduated 
from the U.S. Military Academy in 1873 and participated in many of 
the events described in this book.  He retired a Major General in 
1915. He was also the author of Old Army Sketches, and Horses, 
Saddles, and Bridles. JOHN M. CARROLL of Bryan, Texas, is a 
well-known military historian.  He has authored or edited over 200
publications, including Custer in Texas, The Black Military
Experience of the American West, and Von Schmidt the Complete
Illustrator.


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