Chapter 8

ORGANIZATION OF A CAVALRY CORPS.

1863.--General Hooker assumes Command of the Army of the Potomac.--Demoralization.--Reorganization.--A Cavalry Corps. --General George D. Stoneman in Command.--Death of Sergeant May.--Forests of the Old Dominion.--The Cavalryman and his Faithful Horse.--Scenes in Winter Quarters.--Kilpatrick.-- His Character.--Qualifications of the True Soldier.--A New Horse.--A Mulish Mule.--Kilpatrick's Colored Servants in Trouble.--Terrific Hail-Storm.--Major E. F. Cooke Honored. --Colonel Clarence Buel. 124