California Sabers is the story of the California Battalion and
Hundred, a group of 500 select men who were the only organized
group of Californians to fight in the East during the Civil War.
They volunteered their enlistment bounty to pay their passage
across Panama and on to
Massachusetts, where they became the cadre of the Second
Massachusetts Cavalry.
From mid-1863 to July 1864, the Second Massachusetts fought a
bloody guerilla war in northern Virginia against John S. Mosby, the
confederacy s "Gray Ghost." In July 1864 the regiment became part
of Sheridan s Army of the Shenandoah, and that fall it played a
major role in the decisive battles of Winchester, Toms Run, and
Cedar Creek.
In early 1865 the regiment was in the column that marched across
Virginia destroying the vital railroad and canal that carried
supplies from the Shenandoah Valley to the besieged Army of
Northern Virginia. In late March, the Second Massachusetts was in
the forefront of the battles at Dinwiddie Courthouse and Five
Forks, the two actions that finally broke the stalemate at
Petersburg and forced Lee to retreat to the west. In the ensuing
chase, the regiment was the part of the cavalry spearhead that
finally blocked Lee s army at Appomattox Courthouse.
This work, based on extensive research, is the first
comprehensive history of this relatively unknown group and will be
of great interest to Civil War enthusiasts and historians."
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