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This new civil war blog tracking the history of US Cavalry caught my eye because it details a Scottish immigrant captain of the 6th US Cavalry in 1866, and an earlier skirmish of the 6th, a defeat, actually, at the hands of the 7th Virginia Cavalry in July, 1863. Despite my entirely Confederate ancestry, I’m interested in the 6th because I served as a platoon leader in the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1968-69. Unicorn! We were allegedly training to replace the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam, but most of our troopers were returnees from the war waiting to get out of the army. Most of us platoon leaders went to the war as light-infantry advisors to the SVN. Today, the 6th serves not as a regiment, but as four separate squadrons assigned to three infantry divisions and an aviation brigade.