>>>>[i]I would imagine that the formation of this and other new cavalry regiments was not too popular with the several pre-existing cavalry regiments who had been forced to serve dismounted.[/i]<<<<

Those dismounted guys weren't around any more to complain... having been either shipped across the Mississippi with Van Dorn, or were down in Louisiana with the Texas Division.

The more I read and learn about Hindman, he was if anything a very mercurial fellow...

Tom