Cavalry Officer

First as Mounted Rangers, then Dragoons and Mounted Riflemen, the US Army Cavalry was a potent force used for peacekeeping and expansion in the American West. During the mid-century campaigns the officer corps of this mounted force were often college graduates from military academies and schools with long traditions of training men for service. The Cavalry Officers of a company were responsible for day to day management of troops and resources, as well as ordering and executing mission objectives at the Troop level when directives were handed down from senior officers and policy makers.