 to inform buford that they are in fact advancing the second thing that mcpherson will do is he'll dismount his cavalrymen off their horses now some might say well that reduces their mobility and that is true but he knows his guys as he had fought on the frontier against native americans are better shots from the ground than they are on the back of a horse number one and number two he knows up furthermore that by shooting off the ground he may deceive the advancing confederate infantry into thinking