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The earliest reference I've seen for the salute is the 1914 manual for Drill and Ceremonies, which describes a palm-down salute.

I don't have a reference, but I think the salute went from palm-out in the Civil War, to transitioning to a palm-down salute through the Indian Wars, until palm-down was ...

A picture and description of the experimental officer's saddle can be found on pages 264 and 265 of JUSCA #23.

And, sadly, not a saber in sight. Not even an officer's saber...

One of the really interesting things about this, the almost final era of the cavalry, is that the old and new methods and technologies were complimentary at first. That story is often missed. We often here how the PE proved the utility of vehicles, or that aircraft demonstrated that cavalry was ...