The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.


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

Stonewall Jackson Quotes

The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.

The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.

The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.

The only true rule for cavalry is to follow the enemy as long as he retreats.