No, that was the cavalry.
Is the word you're looking for "cavalry"? This is the general term for mounted troops. (In modern armies, it sometimes refers to mechanized divisions... i.e. tanks... rather than soldiers on actual horses.)
That'd be cavalry
Infantry are foot-soldiers who carry a weapon by hand, opposed to cavalry, who rode on horses, or armor, which is divisions of tanks and artillery.
cavalry
The infantry are the soldiers of an army which travel and fight on foot.
Horsee in the war were used as riding horses and pulling horses. Riding horses for the soldiers to ride so they could move faster then on foot. Pulling horses where used for pulling carts of useful items.
A Cavalry unit is made up of a, Regiment Squadron Platoon Troop Squad Unless of course they are a unit of Mounted Infantry, then they keep their normal Infantry sub-unit designations.
Infantry soldiers were like the men who walked around on the ground with guns
Infantry or ground forces
Cavalry.
The cavalry is on horses, while the infantry are on foot.
infantry soldiers