Unnamed Confederate Cavalry 1

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896
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Unnamed Confederate Cavalry 1
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Unnamed Confederate Cavalry 1
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Yes
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This is the raiding party of Confederate cavalrymen in Flags in the Dust, about twenty men whom General J.E.B. Stuart recklessly leads behind Union lines in quest of coffee; they are described in mythic terms as riding "with the thunderous coordination of a single centaur" (14).