Military
Cavalry troops served as the army's eyes, scouting enemy troop movements and forming the advance guard that made first contact. When serving with infantry and artillery, they dismounted and fought as skirmishers on foot. The 20th Texas was designated dismounted cavalry because a majority of the men had no horses. In the Battle of Honey Springs, a battalion of the 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry was on the Federal right while companies of the 6th Kansas Cavalry attacked on the left flank. They rode into position and were ordered to dismount and skirmish on foot. Later in the fighting they mounted and charged the Confederates and pursued retreating troops.
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