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PART I
Who: The selected
Lowest Maneuver Element (LME) for this essay is the 3rd brigade of the BG George Custer’s cavalry for MG Philip Sheridan’s
Union cavalry, under the command of Colonel Henry Capehart, during the Sailor’s
Creek Battle at Virginia. Henry Capehart was initially the chief surgeon of
the 1st Regiment of the West Virginia Cavalry. He was very
much familiar with the entire territory and was very remarkable in terms
of offering valuable strategic fighting ideas to General Henry Eugene Davies.
Davies was much impressed by the strategic sharpness of Capehart and thus when
Colonel Richmond got injured, Davies replaced Richmond with Capehart and made
him the new commander of1st West Virginia Cavalry on 23rd December
of 1863.
