[LastNorwegian]

4. I’m sure I’ve seen mentioned that one Northern unit used them for a short time (perhaps never in actual battle). But lances were more a curiousity than a weapon of war in the US civil war.

(I’m not going through a few thousand pages for documentation unless it’s important)

[Stonewall Jackson]

The 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry was known as "Rush's Lancers". They were equipped with 9-foot Austrian-style lances at the suggestion of General McClellan. They were armed with these lances for the first half of the war, even taking part in some of the largest battles of the Eastern Theater (the Peninsula Campaign and Antietam) before turning in their lances for carbines.

The landscape of Northern Virginia was inhospitable to lancer operations, although they did launch a moderately successful charge against a Confederate artillery battery while supporting General Burnside at Antietam, ultimately forcing the artillerymen to withdraw or risk losing their valuable cannon.