Showing posts with label Lowest Maneuver Element. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Sailors Creek Battle Analysis


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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.