1944 Event U.S. 113th cavalry passes Belg-Dutch borders 1914 Event French cavalry enter Belgium 1901 Event Battle at Blood River Port: Boer General Botha beats Major Goughs cavalry 1898 Event Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry 1890 Event U.S. 7th Cavalry massacre about 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota 1877 Death Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56 1876 Event Custer and 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Big Horn 1876 Event 7th U.S. Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft. Lincoln 1865 Event President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia 1864 Event Battle of Tom's Brook-Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is wipped by Custer and Merrit's cavalry divisions 1864 Event Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia 1863 Event Jo Shelby's cavalry in action at Moffat's Station, Arkansas 1863 Event 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia 1863 Event Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign 1852 Event 1st Hawaiian cavalry organized 1836 Birthday Joseph Wheeler II, Major General, Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee 1825 Birthday John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General, Confederate cavalry commander 1821 Birthday Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South 1819 Birthday Franz von Suppe, Spalato Dalmatia, composer, Light Cavalry Over 1777 Event Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus 1733 Death Reinier V van Hompech, Dutch General-Major cavalry, dies 1608 Death Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle
