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Title: Some Personal Reminiscences of Service in the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac

Author: Hampton Sidney Thomas

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Language: English

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SOME PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF SERVICE IN THE CAVALRY
OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.

by

COLONEL HAMPTON S. THOMAS.

Reprinted from "The United Service," January, 1889.

Philadelphia:
L. R. Hamersly & Co.
1889.

_SOME PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF SERVICE IN THE CAVALRY OF THE ARMY OF
THE POTOMAC._

At the earnest solicitation of my many military friends, I have thrown
together some reminiscences of my personal experience as a cavalryman
during the late War of the Rebellion. Though my four years of
campaigning began with a three months' tour of tramping with the
"dough-boys" under General Patterson in the spring and early summer of
1861, the latter was only a prolonged picnic. Two days before I was
mustered out of the Ninth Pennsylvania Infantry I enrolled myself in
the First Pennsylvania Cavalry, and soon discovered that I was more
fitted for riding a horse than for trudging through the slush and mud
with a heavy "Harper's Ferry" musket on my shoulder.

I will pass over the tedious instructions of the school of the trooper,
mounted and dismounted, and begin my reminiscences as a full-fledged
Yankee cavalryman.

The First Pennsylvania Cavalry, which originally belonged to the
Pennsylvania Reserve Corps, began its experience as a fighting r