| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132.2

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Rush's Lancers: The Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Civil War. By Eric J. Wittenberg. (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2007. xi, 316 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)
Although equipped with outdated, antiquated weapons for nearly half of its term of service, the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry repeatedly proved itself on the battlefield and garnered the respect and admiration of its commanders and fellow horse soldiers by the close of the Civil War. In Rush's Lancers: The Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the Civil War, Eric J. Wittenberg presents an impressive retelling of the unit's unique history and crafts a vivid image of its experiences within the army.	1
Employing a familiar pattern for regimental histories, Rush's Lancers follows the regiment from its inception and organization in Philadelphia in the summer of 1861 to its disbanding in August 1865. Wittenberg unsurprisingly pays close attention to the unit's field deployments and major engagements, especially at Brandy Station in 1863, where the unit finally came of age—ironically only after having abandoned its trademark lances. The regiment's experiences under fire there and elsewhere, Wittenberg maintains, helped forge its heterogeneous mixture of aristocratic young gentlemen, Quakers, and rough-hewn immigrants into a single fighting unit.	. . .

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