Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions Farnsworth Charge, South Cavalry Field, and th Battle of Fairfield, July 3, 1863

Gettysburg's Forgotten Cavalry Actions examines in detail three of the campaign's central cavalry episodes: the heroic but doomed legendary charge of Brig. Gen. Elon J. Farnsworth's cavalry brigade against Confederate infantry and artillery; Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt's tenacious fight on South Cavalry Field (including a fresh look at the opportunity to roll up the Army of Northern Virginias flank on the afternoon of July 3); and the short but especially brutal cavalry fight on July 3 at Fairfield Pennsylvania, a strategic Confederate victory that kept the Hagerstown Road open for General Lee's retreat to Virginia. This fully revised and expanded edition includes extensive new research interpretations, and conclusions including a new appendix that resolves an ongoing dispute about where Farnsworth's Charge and Merritt's fight occurred; a walking and driving tour complete with GPS coordinates, and updated photographs to reflect the modern appearance of the Gettysburg battlefield.