To Commemorate the First Home of the "Mobile Arm"

In 1838 the Cavalry School of Practice was opened at Carlisle Barracks by Captain E.V. Sumner of the 1st Dragoons. By 1846, when the Mexican War began, the majority of the troopers of the mounted forces of the United States Army bore the Carlisle School stamp. From 1847 to 1853 Carlisle Barracks was a cavalry depot that furnished a constant stream of replacements for cavalry units serving in far western areas and protecting citizens who were building the young and growing nation. Except for brief periods during the Civil War, the post continued as a cavalry depot until 1879, when it was transferred to the Department of the Interior for use as an Indian industrial school. Stationed there or supplied with troopers from the Cavalry School of Practice or the Cavalry Depot were the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, the 2d Regiment of Dragoons, the Regiment of Mounted Rifles, the 1st Cavalry Regiment, the 2d Cavalry Regiment, the 5th Cavalry Regiment, and the 6th Cavalry Regiment.

Schlusser, Pennsylvania · United States