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The Borderer: The antebellum origins of the Father of the American Cavalry

By Mike Medhurst  In late 1827, a second lieutenant fresh from the U.S. Military Academy arrived at Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis. He was Philip St. George Cooke, a son of Virginia whose entra
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