Download or read book Sabres, Saddles, and Spurs written by William R. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabres, Saddles, and Spurs is the diary of the exciting war experiences of Lieutenant Colonel William R. Carter, a member, and often commander, of the 3rd Virginia Cavalry, Brigadier General William C. Wickham's Brigade, Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Carter was mortally wounded at the Battle of Trevilian Station, the largest and bloodiest cavalry battle of the Civil War. As modern students of the Civil War turn their attention more and more to the cavalry, the mobile arm of the commanders, accounts such as Carter's supply the details of battle and of life with the horses essential to that research. Carter's writings are a chronicle of warfare from a cavalry commander's point of view. Here is Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia as its horsemen fought mounted and on foot.