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Ever try to visualize how a real Confederate (or Federal) cavalry charge might have appeared? What would it have been like to be on the receiving end of a horse cavalry charge as they came thundering down upon you? Imagine the sights and sounds.....
............There they are.....you can see them forming up way off in the distance, you know they are coming......but when?
Hey, what’s that?....You strain to see and listen.....you can see some movement, hear the excited shouts of commands from their officers. Then suddenly...., they break.....here they come...right at YOU!!!
Now, you can hear and even feel the rolling, thundering sound of thousands of hooves as they strike the ground, you can hear the bugles blaring, you can see the flash of their sabers, and now.....ever getting closer, closer, louder, and louder and louder... the shouts and, Oh, that fearful, dreadful sound of the unmistakable....... “Rebel Yell”......
Difficult to visualize? Well, perhaps not.........
Click here.........(watch about 8 seconds in....)
OK, so its not JEB Stuart or Nathan Bedford Forrest.....its WWI Cossack Cavalry. But, its as close as anyone of us will ever get to seeing this many real cavalry and horses in a cavalry charge so I thought it would be appropriate to view here.
The Cossacks (along with our own Plain’s Indians and I might add our Confederate Cavalry- Yea, I know I am biased) in each of their own unique ways have been considered some of the finest light cavalry in the world.
Kinda cool huh?
Ken R Knopp
............There they are.....you can see them forming up way off in the distance, you know they are coming......but when?
Hey, what’s that?....You strain to see and listen.....you can see some movement, hear the excited shouts of commands from their officers. Then suddenly...., they break.....here they come...right at YOU!!!
Now, you can hear and even feel the rolling, thundering sound of thousands of hooves as they strike the ground, you can hear the bugles blaring, you can see the flash of their sabers, and now.....ever getting closer, closer, louder, and louder and louder... the shouts and, Oh, that fearful, dreadful sound of the unmistakable....... “Rebel Yell”......
Difficult to visualize? Well, perhaps not.........
Click here.........(watch about 8 seconds in....)
OK, so its not JEB Stuart or Nathan Bedford Forrest.....its WWI Cossack Cavalry. But, its as close as anyone of us will ever get to seeing this many real cavalry and horses in a cavalry charge so I thought it would be appropriate to view here.
The Cossacks (along with our own Plain’s Indians and I might add our Confederate Cavalry- Yea, I know I am biased) in each of their own unique ways have been considered some of the finest light cavalry in the world.
Kinda cool huh?
Ken R Knopp
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