No uniform nor distinguishing badge was respected, excepting those of the squad of cavalrymen who cleared the way, and the liveries of the Municipality's coaches.
Cavalrymen in the Indian country never ride into full view on top of a "divide" until after some one of their number has carefully looked over the ground beyond.
The camps of the Mexican infantry were pouring forth their bayonets, and everywhere the cavalrymen stood beside their horses, ready to mount at the word of command.
Horses neighed, mules brayed, red men whooped, cavalrymen shouted, and the net result was a wild stampede of every brute that was loose or that could break his tether.
Handsomely dressed cavalrymen of the palace guard were dashing to and fro over the clean, hard pavement; elegant carriages containing the noble and wealthy were whirling in every direction.
These cavalrymenwere of Moseby's disbanded command, returning from Fairfax Court House to their homes in Caroline county.
Monday, the detectives and cavalrymendisembarked at Belle Plain, on the border of Stafford county, at 10 o'clock, in the darkness.
It was worn and whitewashed, and two-storied, and its half-human windows glowered down upon the silent cavalrymen like watching owls, which stood as sentries over some horrible secret asleep within.
We said we did; they could not see how we got through, as ten rebel cavalrymen were sleeping on the piazza.
We did not dare breathe as the five rebel cavalrymen rode past.
Discipline, while keeping the cavalrymen in the ranks, has not been able to change the instinct of the rider.
Is this because in war man lasts longer in the cavalry and because our cavalrymen were older and more seasoned soldiers than our infantry?
Such drills would instruct cavalrymen more rapidly than the restricted method employed.
We ought to be much better cavalrymen than infantrymen, because the essential in a cavalryman is a fearless impetuosity.
The cavalrymen who go at the enemy, if left to themselves, would start at a gallop, for fear of not arriving, or of arriving exhausted and material for carnage.
Cavalrymen attacked each other perhaps more than the ancient cavalry did, for the reason that they were invulnerable: it was not sufficient to throw them down; it was necessary to kill when once they were on the ground.
When close enough to recognize faces, these cavalrymen slackened their gait and both turned their backs.
Make a quarter of your cavalrymeninto muleteers, a quarter of your horses into pack animals.
The hands of the cavalrymen reined back, the instinct of men and horses was to slacken, to stop, if the enemy himself did not stop, and to make an about if he continued to advance.
Meanwhile we see thirty to thirty-four hundred Roman cavalrymen nearly exterminated by six to seven thousand Gauls and Iberians who did not lose even two hundred men.
Starting in July with a force of 3,000 Confederate cavalrymen and ten guns Morgan crossed the Ohio river into Indiana, capturing two steamers and using them as ferryboats.
The Confederate cavalrymencaptured the town and its garrison, burned all the stores and destroyed the railroad buildings.
On the other side of the field the artillerymen and cavalrymen ate, holding their reins under their arms, while their officers stood around some temporary table, served by canteen men of the united divisions.
I need no more escort than two cavalrymen for General Lenaieff and myself.
Then soft and mellow over canon and mesa and butte floated the bugle-call, recalling the cavalrymen to the guidon.
The cavalrymen fired at will, each plunging from one cover to another as he picked out his man.
Some of the cavalrymen themselves were knocked out of the saddle by the fleeing horses, but they quickly regained their seats.
One of the cavalrymen was killed and several wounded.
Cavalrymen on both sides were active, ranging over a wide area.
Part of the gain he utilized for another rest, lying down this time behind a rocky ridge until he heard the cavalrymen calling to one another.
They quickly joined General Stuart, who was eager for the duty, and falling in line with the troop of Sherburne rode swiftly toward Port Royal, the cavalrymen carrying with them several light guns.
I'll ride back peaceably to General Lee in the morning, and tell him that I left ten thousand cavalrymen lying lazily on the grass, and ten thousand horses eating their heads off near Brandy Station.
I've noticed in the recent fighting," said Harry, "that the Northern cavalrymen are a lot better than they used to be.
He heard shouts behind him, but no shots, and he knew that the cavalrymen still believed him to be their own man following some new sign.
He was closing in with more than a hundred thousand stern fighters, and ten thousand splendid cavalrymen under Stoneman were hanging on the Southern flank, ready to cut off retreat.
Besides, the cavalrymen have some matters to look after near the mountains, or we might not have had their protection granted us.
The time for that last bullet had almost come when the sight of cavalrymenon a distant ridge told us that our scout was on its way to us again.
On the next day the cavalrymen left us for a time, and we went on alone southward toward our journey's end.
A day out from Santa Fé we were joined by the little squad of cavalrymen with whom we had parted company back at the Fort Bent camping-place.
The cavalrymen and maybe, too, we who had been plainsmen, knew how to drive back a villianous handful of Apaches.
All day, with neither food nor water, amid bewildering bluffs and gorges, alive with savage warriors, the cavalrymen had striven desperately.
Instead he found just outside the kitchen, as he and the big bay turned the corner, a group of dismounted cavalrymen in Confederate gray.
Piecing together scraps of information gathered here and there, studying every crossroad for possible hoof-marks of flight, the silent commander of the cavalrymen at last convinced himself that he was on the trail of the quarry.
About a mile farther on two cavalrymen in a skirt of wood cried out "Halt," and said: "You are a prisoner.
Hearing shots in advance I galloped on and found four or five cavalrymen around this animal, that looked as if he might be the grandsire of the herd.
We left Canton with two cavalrymen as a guard; crossed the Yazoo at Yazoo City.
One peculiarity of these cavalrymenwas their instability in the saddle.
The procession was headed by several hundred infantry soldiers, marching without the least semblance of order, and followed by cuirassed cavalrymen mounted on microscopic ponies in the manner above described.
Just as supper was ready a citizen who lived nearby and knew we were all there, came in and said there was a lot of cavalrymen on the Louisa Spring road, but he could not just tell which way they were aiming to go.
In the smoke of another volley, two more cavalrymen pitched out of their saddles.
May went out with the booming of shotted guns beyond the, Southern horizon, amid rumours of dead zouaves and cavalrymen somewhere beyond Alexandria.
We spoke no words as we walked on, and went as noiselessly as possible, for we were on the lookout for scouting parties of cavalrymen that might be prowling about.
Some cavalrymen came into the stable under the mows and took out their horses.
An hour later the fires were extinguished, the horses quietly saddled, and noiselessly the tired cavalrymen moved out once more and took up the trail.
The little body of cavalrymen was divided into four detachments.
From the top of the ridge they could look down on the toiling column of cavalrymen below in the bluff shadow, and gaze off over the wide expanse of valley, through which ran the half-frozen Canadian.
Before the scattered tribes could rally for a second attack, with flankers out, and skirmishers in advance, the cavalrymen rode straight down the valley toward the retreating hostiles.
Suddenly John Edmonds' younger brother, Jimmy, burst into the room with the news that several hundred Union cavalrymen were approaching.
Other revolvers, ready drawn, banged, and several Union cavalrymen were wounded.
A surgeon felt his pulse and looked inquiringly around: "Any of you cavalrymen know him well?
Near the outer gates of the city I met my threecavalrymen of the Indian regiment waiting to bid good-bye.
The cavalrymen were trotting up and down, and trying to discover their own people.
I was not a minute too soon, for as I seized my rifle, one of my men ran in and shouted to me that foreign cavalrymen had burst in, shooting in the air, and were now driving out all the animals and looting all the carts as well.
Then as suddenly as it had commenced this pelting ceased; we saw our cavalrymen flicker away in the distance, and once more everything was absolutely quiet.
Then, for the last time, my cavalrymen turned round and shouted faintly back to me.
In order not to become a series of conspicuous targets, thecavalrymen were forced to dismount and fight their way up to the ridges on foot.
There were those who saw in French's success a justification for the cavalrymenof the old school, armed cap à pie.
In the afternoon the cavalrymen learnt, with no little chagrin, that Lord Roberts had already entered Pretoria.
All day the weary cavalrymen waited for the supplies, which did not come until they were attempting to snatch a few hours of sleep.
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