The later phases of the war saw the Federal army developing a truly effective cavalry force fighting as scouts, raiders, and, with repeating rifles, as mounted infantry.

When Sturgis's Federal army came upon the crossroad, they collided with Forrest's cavalry.

A master of hit-and-run cavalry tactics, Watie fought those Cherokee loyal to John Ross and Federal troops in Indian Territory and Arkansas, capturing Union supply trains and steamboats, and saving a Confederate army by covering their retreat after the Battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862.

In August 1862 the Confederate cavalry of Nathan B. Forrest suffered 180 casualties in its attempt to destroy a Federal post protecting the railroad at Guest Hollow.

General Nathan Bedford Forrest fought an engagement near Alpine with Federal cavalry resulting in the Federals being thrown back to the Chattanooga area.

According to the historian John D. Winters in his The Civil War in Louisiana, " Such a strong force of Confederate cavalry occupied the Mississippi side opposite St. Joseph that all Federal attempts to close the transit in January ended in failure.

Stuart ’ s cavalry, posted at Funkstown, posed a serious risk to the Federal right and rear if the Union army lunged west from Boonsboro.

Gen. John Buford ’ s Federal cavalry division cautiously approached Funkstown via the National Road on Friday morning July 10, 1863, it encountered Stuart ’ s crescent-shaped, three-mile-long battle line.

On July 2, concurrent with the Battle of Gettysburg in neighboring Adams County, Captain Ulric Dahlgren's Federal cavalry patrol galloped into Greencastle's town square, where they surprised and captured several Confederate cavalrymen carrying vital correspondence from Richmond.

On April 13, 1865, in the Battle of Morrisville, Federal cavalry under the command of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick skirmished with the retreating Confederate armies at Morrisville Station.

File: Sheridan's Trevilian Station Raid. png | Routes of Federal and Confederate cavalry to Trevilian Station, June 7 – 10, 1865

Despite the raiders ' best efforts, Union forces had amassed nearly 110, 000 militia in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio ; dozens of United States Navy gunboats along the Ohio ; and strong Federal cavalry forces, which doomed the raid from the beginning.

He barely missed capture by Federal cavalry, under Col. Benjamin F. " Grimes " Davis, that had escaped from Harpers Ferry during the Maryland Campaign ; over 40 of Longstreet's 80 ammunition wagons were captured.

Forrest loaded his cavalry on board and along with the captured transport " Venus " which had been fitted with Confederate cannons, proceeded toward Johnsonville, TN to attack the Federal supply depot located there.

Other Federal cavalry continued to arrive at the position.

He ordered the Confederate cavalry under Wheeler to harass the Federal rear and flanks while the militiamen under Smith hurried eastward to protect the seaport city.

His men were routed and dispersed by Federal cavalry on January 27, 1864.

At 4: 45 p. m., MacArthur led 1, 200 infantry, 1, 200 cavalry, and six battle tanks ( commanded by Major George S. Patton ) to Federal Triangle to remove the Bonus Army.

In one of the largest cavalry engagements of the war, two divisions of Major General Sterling Price's Army of Missouri were routed by two Federal brigades under the command of Colonels Frederick Benteen and John Finis Philips.

Quickly renewing their pursuit, the Federal cavalry effected their own crossing of the river, which was delayed somewhat due to heavy rain and the swollen condition of the river.

On February 15, 1861, Ben McCulloch, Texas Ranger, began marching toward the Federal arsenal at San Antonio, Texas, with a cavalry force of about 550 men, about 150 of whom were Knights of the Golden Circle ( KGC ) from six castles.

From this point in the war, the Federal cavalry gained strength and confidence.

Gen. Beverly Robertson was sent ahead to dispatch the Federal cavalry guarding the fords of the Rapidan River and occupying Madison Court House, threatening the Confederates left flank as they marched northward.

Gen. Jubal Early's brigade, the vanguard of Ewell's division, came upon Federal cavalry and artillery occupying the ridge above Cedar Run, just to the north-west of Cedar Mountain.

The French Monnet Plan pushed for an internationalization of the area, and the subsequent Ruhr Agreement was imposed as a condition for the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany.

From the end of 1944 to 1949, large sections of eastern Germany came under the Soviet Union's occupation and on 2 May 1945, the capital city Berlin was taken, while over fifteen million Germans were removed from eastern Germany and pushed into central Germany ( later called German Democratic Republic ) and western Germany ( later called Federal Republic of Germany ).

In January 2003, Nancy Pelosi, the ranking Democrat in the U. S. House of Representatives, pushed for a trial arrangement to give holders of Matricula Consular cards access to the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco.

From his position on the Homeland Security Committee, he pushed for accountability at the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) and a careful review of the role of the Red Cross in the time of disaster.

He also pushed for the Federal Government to build a national indigenous museum in Melbourne.

Although wounded in the fray, Price pushed Curtis's force back at Elkhorn Tavern on the March 7, only to see the battle lost on the following day after a furious Federal counterattack.

Late in the afternoon, around 4 p. m., Early pushed back Federal skirmishers at the Valley Pike toll-gate and after minor engagements, the Federal forces retreated north of Abrams Creek.

Federal prosecutors pushed for the maximum sentence of ten years, but Cunningham's defense lawyers said that at 64 years old and with prostate cancer, Cunningham would likely die in prison if he received the full sentence.

The Federal forces fired some volleys that caused the Rebel line to pause momentarily, but the Texans soon pushed on to the levee where they received orders to charge.

The fighting began on October 3 as the Confederates pushed the Federal army from the rifle pits originally constructed by the Confederates for the Siege of Corinth.

The museum building was designed by Philip Cox, and although an opening date of 1988 was initially set, construction delays, cost overruns, and disagreements between the State and Federal governments over funding responsibility pushed the opening back to 1991.

He created the route while a member of the federal board appointed to create the Federal Highway System, then pushed for the establishment of the U. S. Highway 66 Association to pave and promote the highway.

* On May 10, Col. Jacob Higgins, commanding about 500 Federal cavalry, was surprised by detachments of Imboden's cavalry ; he tried to rally his men " on the plains of Romney " but was pushed out of town.

Until his death in 1969, twenty years after his return, Adorno contributed to the intellectual foundations of the Federal Republic, as a professor at Frankfurt University, critic of the vogue enjoyed by Heideggerian philosophy, partisan of critical sociology and teacher of music at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

A cabinet for the new Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was formed, with twenty five of the twenty eight members being former Communist Yugoslav Partisans led by Josip Broz Tito.

Moore is less than twenty minutes from downtown Oklahoma City, Will Rogers World Airport, Tinker Air Force Base, the University of Oklahoma, the Federal Aviation Administration's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, and thousands of businesses, industries, public and private schools, as well as recreational and cultural facilities.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Lansky retained a substantial financial interest in the Flamingo for the next twenty years.

" Federal NDP leader Jack Layton defended Schreyer, observing that many people's views on the subject have changed in the last twenty years.

Alison was one of the first twenty people in Canada to receive a Federal Licence to smoke, possess and grow medical marijuana for health reasons.

Within a year of its formation, the Federal Theatre had more than fifteen thousand men and women on its payroll at an average wage of approximately twenty dollars a week.

She married her second husband, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, twenty years her senior, in 1997 following a lengthy relationship.

Although she always claimed a birthdate of 1894 and that she was one of a family of twenty children, the 1900 Federal Census shows " Loretter Aiken " in Brevard was born in March 1897 and was the youngest of four ( out of five ) surviving children of James P. and Mary Aiken.

He was sentenced to twenty one months in Federal Prison, after a Federal Judge rejected a plea by Leibell's lawyer to have the former Senator sent overseas to do " nation building work " in the Middle East instead of jailtime, a suggestion which outraged the media and local residents whom Leibell had betrayed by his actions.

For twenty years prior, the Democratic Party controlled the Federal Government.