[fso301]

Best cavalry comander: General Phillip Sheridan, Chief of Cavalry, Army of the Potomac, fought more classic mounted cavalry battles, won them all.

His men were armed with that damn Yankee rifle you load in the morning and shoot all day.

[gandalftb]

Too bad the Rebs didn't have a rifle so reliable or with such a rate of fire.

Your point is well taken, the Spenser repeater was a significant factor in outcome. Gregg's cavalry, newly carrying Spenser's, stopped JEB Stuart from reinforcing Pickett's charge and changed the outcome of Gettysburg and the war.