Unsung Hero of Gettysburg

Longacre's superb book addresses a significant gap in our understanding of the United States' victory in the American Civil War. —Barbara A. Gannon, Pennsylvania Heritage Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg (1833–1917) was one of the ablest and most successful commanders of cavalry in any Civil War army. Pennsylvania-born, West Point–educated, and deeply experienced in cavalry operations prior to the conflict, his career personified that of the typical cavalry officer in the mid-nineteenth-century Americ