Horse Soldiers at Gettysburg: The Cavalryman’s View of the Civil War’s Pivotal Campaign ( Daniel Murphy GC) brooch But James Oakes’s brilliant history US ETCHED ON BLADE But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years he also helped found and is the current president of Save Historic Antietam Foundation Most cavalry treatments of the campaign and battle have focused on strategy Daniel Murphy brings a horseman’s eye to the story of the campaign: how individual cavalrymen experienced the campaign from the saddle and how horses—with special needs for care and maintenance—were in fact weapons that helped shape battles