Were sabres used effectively in U.S. Civil War?

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Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

...The last use of the cavalry sabre in combat it seems was in Luzon, in the Philippines in 1906, and the swords used were appararantly surplus sabres from the Civil War...

i assume you mean the last US use, as i've read an account of a british cavalry unit in the early days of WWI that came on a unit of german lancers and charged and engaged them with the sword, and drove them off, and then pursued them until they came upon a single strand of barbed wire a farmer had erected to keep the cows out of his garden, by the time they had gotten around it the germans had escaped. appears the lancers were raw recruits and had as yet received minimal training.