. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . lete re-mounts or nearly forty thousand horses. The price paid to contractors by Federal purchasingagents averaged about $160 per head, and occasionally reallyhigh-class horses found their way into the lots received at thedepots. More often, however, the reverse was the case, and theinspectors of horses were usually at their wits ends detectingthe many frauds and tricks of the horse trade, which dealersattempted to perpetrate on the Government. Men otherwiseknown to be of the staunchest integrity seem to lose all senseof the equity
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . lete re-mounts or nearly forty thousand horses. The price paid to contractors by Federal purchasingagents averaged about $160 per head, and occasionally reallyhigh-class horses found their way into the lots received at thedepots. More often, however, the reverse was the case, and theinspectors of horses were usually at their wits ends detectingthe many frauds and tricks of the horse trade, which dealersattempted to perpetrate on the Government. Men otherwiseknown to be of the staunchest integrity seem to lose all senseof the equity of things when it comes to selling or swappinghorses; and this is particularly the case when the other party totbe transaction is the Government, a corporate body incapableof physical suffering and devoid of sentiment. The Giesboro depot received between January 1, 1864,and June 30, 1866—a period of two and one-half years—anaggregate of 170,654 cavalry horses. Of this number, 96,006were issued to troops in the field, 1,574 were issued to officers, [8341.
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