uently made graceful and honorable acknowledgment. In
this affair there were honors enough to go around.

Subsequently General Luther S. Trowbridge, of Detroit, who was an
officer in the Fifth Michigan cavalry, who like Colonel Brooke-Rawle
fought most creditably in the cavalry fight on the right, wrote a paper
on the same subject which was read before the Michigan commandery of the
Loyal Legion. This very fitly supplemented Colonel Brooke-Rawle's
polished oration. In the year 1889, another monument erected by the
state of Michigan on the Rummel farm, and but a hundred yards or such a
matter from the other, was dedicated. The writer of these
"Recollections" was the orator of the occasion, and the points of his
address are contained in the narrative which constitutes this chapter.
Those three papers and others written since that time, notably one by
General George B. Davis, judge advocate general, U.S.A., and one by
Captain Miller, of the Third Pennsylvania cavalry, have brought the
cavalry fight at Gettysburg into the limelight, so that there is no
longer any pretext for the historian or student of the history of the
civil war to profess ignorance of the events of that day which reflect
so much luster on the cavalry arm of the service.

To illustrate the point made in these concluding paragraphs that the
part taken by the cavalry on the right is at last understood and
acknowledged, the following extract from an address given before the
students of the Orchard Lake military academy by General Charles King
the gifted author of "The Colonel's Daughter," and many other writings,
is herein quoted. General King is himself a cavalry officer with a
brilliant record in the army of the United States. In that address to
the students on "The Battle of Gettysburg," he said:

"And so, just as Gettysburg was the turning point of the great war,
so, to my thinking, was the grapple with and overthrow of Stuart on
the fields of the Rummel farm the turning point of Gettysburg. Had he
triumphed there; had he cut his way through or over that glorious
brigade of Wolverines and come sweeping all before him down among the
reserve batteries and ammunition trains, charging furiously at the
rear of our worn and exhausted infantry even as Pickett's devoted
Virginians assailed their front, no man can say what scenes of rout
and disaster might not have occurred. Pickett's charge was the grand
and dramatic climax of the