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The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.
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Statement to Colonel Thomas T. Munford (13 June 1862); as quoted in Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War (1904) by George Francis Robert Henderson Vol. I, Ch. XI p. 392

 

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