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Civil War Cavalry
Many breastplates and other protective devices were seen here, and later at Winchester. We did not know whether the Federals had organized cuirassiers, or were recurring to the customs of Gustavus Adolphus. I saw a poor fellow lying dead on the pike, pierced through breastplate and body by a rifle-ball. '
All this I pronounce absolutely false, even when General Taylor asserts, as he does, that these things are what he himself saw,
There was no one, officer or man, in the cavalry of Banks's army,
Michigan Cavalry
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