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History Matters: The 7th Cavalry

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Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer in field uniform. 23 May 1865
Library of Congress
Dr. Gary Joiner
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Airs Tuesday, June 27, 2017, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Gary Joiner looks back to our westward expansion and the creation of The 7th Cavalry.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.

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Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”