Horses and Mules in the Civil War: A Complete History with a Roster of More Than 700 War Horses

The volume also contains a roster of hundreds of horses and the men who utilized them during the war. This informative reference should find itself on the bookshelf of any Civil War enthusiast. Although the book is brief, the author has managed to pack a wealth of information in its fewer than one hundred pages. Giesberg looks at many subjects of the war, among them the Election of in Pennsylvania, the mobilization for war, African Americans and the Underground Railroad, the raising of black troops in the state, the draft, the aftermath of Gettysburg, Thaddeus Stevens, the Election of , and the funeral of Abraham Lincoln.

This valuable collection of documents is the latest volume in the Civil War in the Great Interior series that has already produced fine volumes of primary sources on Ohio, Missouri, Kansas, and Indiana.

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The volume, which includes a long list of discussion questions, would work perfectly in the classroom or be very useful for anyone researching Illinois during the Civil War era. If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'.

View freely available titles: They ate together, slept together, marched, fought and often died together. By the thousands, men reposed in fields fast asleep from arduous campaigns with their horses quietly grazing beside them, and nary a cavalier was trod upon or injured by his steed.

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They were so faithful and unfaltering. When the bugle sounded, they were always ready to respond, for they knew all the bugle calls. If it were saddle up, or the feed, or the water call, they were as ready to answer one as the other.

And they were so noble and so brave in battle. They seemed to love the sound of the guns. The cavalryman might lie low on the neck of his horse as the missiles of death hissed about him.

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But the horse never flinched, except when struck. As we should, we build monuments for our dead soldiers, for those we know, and for the unknown dead. So with the ultimate sacrifice of our lamented fallen honored upon their noble deaths, is it not also just that we recall their valiant steeds? The lore of the Civil War is replete with famous horses.

Lee had his beloved Traveler. Sheridan, who made a legendary mile dash from Winchester to the battlefield at Cedar Creek on October 19, , rode his warhorse Rienzi. Grant had his Cincinnati. Meade, the victor at Gettysburg, had his Old Baldy. These famous mounts carried their masters into battle and into legend.

In some ways, the horses that suffered and died during the Civil War were more important than the men who rode them. The Union certainly could not have prevailed in the Civil War without the horses that it relied upon so heavily. As stated above, without the horse, there could be no cavalryman. In many instances, the loyal horses did their duty until the could do more, collapsed and died. And for the cavalryman, it was akin to losing his best friend. The photo is of the cavalry horse monument in Middleburg, Virginia.

It depicts a played out horse, weary and worn to a nub, still doing his duty.

I remember James I. That got me to thinking how many horses must have been killed in the battles. It must have been staggering. A nice, short piece about an unappreciated subject. For example, the amount of daily forage required by a 6-gun battery for its horses would — pardon the phrase — choke a horse. May our New Year be filled with preservation victories, new books, and trips to historical places with friends. Really looking forward to Second Manassas! What do you say? Also for provision of day-to-day husbandry. Yale Univ Pr, Hollingsworth, Kent, and Ed Bowen.

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