At Last
n 1994, I decided to gather material on the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, also known as Rush's Lancers. I wasn't sure that I was going to do a regimental history, but I was intrigued by this regiment, which was armed with a strange and cumbersome weapon. As I started learning more about the unit, I realized that it really deserved a modern regimental history. The original regimental history, based on the war-time diary of the regimental chaplain, was published in 1868. I decided to gather material and see if I could come up with enough to write a regimental history about a year later.
I spent more than twelve years researching and writing about this regiment. Along the way, one volume of soldier letters was published, and I have identified a second set that I expect will be published by the University of Tennessee Press as part of its Voices of the Civil War Series.
About 1998, I learned that Ed Longacre was also planning to do a history of the Lancers, and that he had signed a......
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