BELOW: What the 2nd Dragoons/Cavalry looked like Fall 1861.
Oh look, me on a horse, with a few partners in historic crime - just pirates on horses...Gettysburg 2007
"Me and TEX June 1863 (I mean 2007)"
"Me and Bailey - April 2007 (I mean 1863)
Christ, my wife and kids, Cavalry history, the American Civil War, my horse, my friends - and my Cavalry Unit: www.SecondDragoons.Org
Joshua David (in heaven since 1993), John & Abigail Adams, George & Martha Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, my Great-Grandparents, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John McCain, Jodie Foster, John Cleese, Bob Hope & Bing Crosby, Katherine Hepburn, John Buford, Wesley Merritt, David McM Gregg, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, JRR Tolkien, Gandalf, Galadriel, Prof. Dumbledore, St Nicholas, etc, etc, etc.
ABOVE: Sgt Conrad Schmidt, Comp'y F 2nd US Cavalry rescues Capt Rodenbough after the latter was wounded at 3rd Winchester Sept 1864. MOH awarded to former Sgt Schmidt in 1896.
Music infuses our lives to give a voice to our heart. Celtic, Classic, Surf and Surf Revival, Brass Bands, Klezmer, Folk, Folk-Rock, "Classic" Rock, everybody who went to woodstock, Bugle calls.
Lord of the Rings(all), Harry Potter, They Were Expendable, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Stage Coach, The Searchers, Gettysburg, Ride with the Devil, Cold Mountain, Glory, Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Pale Rider, the Spaghetti Westerns, The Unforgiven, Dances With Wolves, What Dreams May Come, Toy Story(s), The Incredibles, Willy Wonka(both), Peter Pan, Hook, A Very Long Engagement, Chocolade, Amelie, Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge over the river Kwai, Zulu, The Sting, Always, 12 O'Clock High, Memphis Belle, Air Force, They Wanted Wings, Father Goose, North by Northwest, Dr Zhivago, Arabesque, The Big Country, A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum, Gunga Din, Exodus, all Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd films, Batman(all), Terminator II, Im Westen Ist Nichts Neue (All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The Blue Max, Hells Angels, Victory at Sea, How Green was my Valley, Robin Hood (old), The Princess Bride, Moonstruck, Old Yeller, Music Man, How the West Was Won - Documentaries: The Civil War, Jazz, Baseball, Lewis & Clark.
Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, My Name is Earl, PBS/BBC Mystery!, Cartoons, History Channel, Discovery Channel - American Chopper, Myth Busters, Turner Classic Movies, AMC, some Sci-Fi, Star Trek.
Lord of the Rings, Beowulf, Harry Potter (we read 'em together), all Isaac Asimov & Ray Bradbury, all David McCulloh books, all John LeCarre' books, all CS Lewis, all Steven Ambrose, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Catcher in the Rye, memoires of Grant, Sherman, and others - Lincoln by David herbert Donald, Blue Eyed Child of Fortune, All for the Union, They Were Expendable, Guadalcanal Diary, I Could Never Be So Lucky Again (Doolittle). Shakespear: Henry V, Alls Well that Ends Well, King Lear, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merchant of Venice, Comedy of Erros, Much Ado About nothing, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and ANYTHING on Civil War Cavalry
Anyone who risks themselves for the good of others: Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, Police, Firefighters, Parents, etc, etc, etc.
BELOW: Theophilus Rodenbough, Commanded 2nd Cavalry Rgmt 1864. Wounded at Trevillians Sta. and 3rd Winchester.
BELOW: Welsey Merrit, Commanded 2nd Cavalry Rgmt at Brandy Sta., Commanded Reserve Cav. Bde at Gettysburg, Commanded 1st Cav Division 1864-65
BELOW: John Buford, Capt 2nd Dragoons to 1861, Commanded Reserve Cav Bde Brandy Sta., Commanded 1st Cav Div Gettysburg, Died Dec 1863 of Typhus. Taught all the younger officers how to be Dragoons. The model they looked up to the rest of their lives.
BELOW: 2nd Dragoons lead the way across Wyoming and Utah Fall 1858: Never a Complaint was heard from man or officer.
Prisoners from the Front - Winslow Homer
"My Bunkie" - Americans don't leave soldiers behind!
At the Sutlers' Tent - Winslow Homer
Home Sweet Home - Winslow Homer
Cavalry Charge - Thomas Nast
Trooper Meditating Beside a Grave - Winslow Homer
Wesley Merritt & Staff
Second Cavalry, USA in France-Belgium 1918
Chinooks over the Jefferson Memorial
Which Band of Brothers character are you?
Don Malarkey
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