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History Matters: The 7th Cavalry

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
Published June 19, 2018 at 7:45 AM CDT
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Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer in field uniform.

Airs Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at 7:45 a.m. This week commentator Gary Joiner looks back to our westward expansion and the creation of The 7th Cavalry.
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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.
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.”
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