Post by herosrest on Jan 19, 2013 19:36:02 GMT -6
Thanks to the incredible generosity of the American Quartermaster Museum, the LRGAF has launched the American Cavalry Blueprint Library. This extraordinary collection of more than 250 military documents reveals details of the legendary McClellan riding saddle and the famous Phillips pack saddle, as well as all of the items once used on a daily basis by mounted troopers, including bridles, saddlebags, hobbles, stirrups, picket pins, farrier tools and hundreds of other cavalry paraphernalia. www.lrgaf.org/articles/blueprints.htm
Depending on who you talk to, Colonel George Armstrong Custer was either a military genius or a glory-hungry madman. The debate began in 1876, soon after the American cavalry officer led the Seventh Cavalry into the fatal “Battle of the Little Big Horn.” Yet while films and books have often depicted Custer as a dashing but doomed hero, these popular accounts failed to study the officer’s equestrian decisions. Thanks to the academic assistance of Brigadier General Doctor Thomas Murnane, the LRGAF is able to present the most extensive equestrian study ever undertaken into “Custer’s Last Stand.” The enlightening document entitled, Marching with Custer was published in 1941 by Colonel Elwood Nye. Nye, who spent years studying Custer and excavating at the battle site, concluded that Hollywood got it all wrong when it came to the horses. www.lrgaf.org/articles/custer.htm
Depending on who you talk to, Colonel George Armstrong Custer was either a military genius or a glory-hungry madman. The debate began in 1876, soon after the American cavalry officer led the Seventh Cavalry into the fatal “Battle of the Little Big Horn.” Yet while films and books have often depicted Custer as a dashing but doomed hero, these popular accounts failed to study the officer’s equestrian decisions. Thanks to the academic assistance of Brigadier General Doctor Thomas Murnane, the LRGAF is able to present the most extensive equestrian study ever undertaken into “Custer’s Last Stand.” The enlightening document entitled, Marching with Custer was published in 1941 by Colonel Elwood Nye. Nye, who spent years studying Custer and excavating at the battle site, concluded that Hollywood got it all wrong when it came to the horses. www.lrgaf.org/articles/custer.htm