UNION CAVALRY SWORD - 15TH PA VOL. CAVALRY

Y SWORD W/ METAL SCABBARD LEATHER ON HANDLE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. OWNED BY: PVT. HARVEY E. BROOKS, CO A, 15TH PA VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

The 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, known as the Anderson Cavalry and the 160th Volunteers, was a three-year cavalry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was recruited and formed in the summer of 1862 by officers and men of the Anderson Troop, an independent company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers that had been mustered the previous November.

Until the last three months of the war the 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry was an independent unit reporting directly to the headquarters of the Army of the Cumberland, performing escort, scouting, courier and other details for the commanding general. Composed of hand-picked men most of whom were qualified to receive commissions, it became the favorite unit of both Generals William S. Rosecrans and George H. Thomas.