for raid in the Confederate rear foiled by George Stoneman's inaction Battle of Gaines's Mill — the first large cavalry engagement of the war Battle of Gettysburg, Third Day cavalry battles — East Cavalry Field and Farnsworth's Charge Battle of Franklin — James H. Wilson's repulse of Forrest probably saved the Union army Battle of Mine Creek — 9,600 cavalry, in 1864, Pleasanton leads the largest cavalry battle west of the Mississippi Battle of Sailor's Creek — masterful cavalry maneuvers brought Confederates close to surrender in the Appomattox Campaign. Battle of Selma — James H. Wilson's massive raid into Alabama in 1865 Battle of Trevilian Station — 16,048 cavalry, in 1864, Sheridan leads largest all-cavalry battle of the war Battle of Yellow Tavern — J.E.B. Stuart killed in action by Philip Sheridan's cavalry Dahlgren's Raid — unsuccessful Union raid against Richmond Gettysburg Campaign — numerous cavalry actions in Robert E. Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania Grierson's Raid — long-range raid through Mississippi in conjunction with Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign Maryland Campaign — J.E.B. Stuart's second ride around the Union army Peninsula Campaign — Stuart's first ride around the Union army Price's Raid — Sterling Price's 1864 raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater Streight's Raid — 1863 raid across Alabama in which Col. Abel Streight surrendered 1,500 men to Forrest's 400 Third Battle of Winchester — 9,300 cavalry, Sheridan battled Early in 1864, in the Shenandoah valley Wilson's Raid — James H. Wilson's 1865 raid through Alabama and Georgia Morgan's Raid — John H. Morgan's 1863 raid through Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. Notable cavalry leaders and partisan rangers Turner Ashby William W. Averell John Buford Louis Henry Carpenter Philip St. George Cooke George Armstrong Custer Ulric Dahlgren Elon J. Farnsworth Nathan Bedford Forrest David McM. Gregg Benjamin Grierson Wade Hampton John D. Imboden Jesse James Frank James Albert G. Jenkins William E. "Grumble" Jones Judson Kilpatrick Fitzhugh Lee W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee John S. Marmaduke Wesley Merritt John Hunt Morgan John S. Mosby John Pelham Alfred Pleasonton William Quantrill Beverly Robertson Thomas L. Rosser Joseph O. "Jo" Shelby Philip Sheridan David S. Stanley George Stoneman J.E.B. Stuart Alfred Thomas Torbert Earl Van Dorn John A. Wharton Joseph Wheeler James H. Wilson Cole Younger References Further reading Gerleman, David J. "Warhorse! Union Cavalry Mounts." North and South Magazine Vol. 2, No. 2, (January 1999), pp. 47–61. Longacre, Edward G. Lincoln's Cavalrymen: A History of