. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 548 ©te gvseb&c axx2> §pixvt»man* [Jone 9,1894 The Thoroughbred in 'War. " When I went to the war in 1861," wrote Senator Wade Hampton, " I took with me three thoroughbred stallions. One was black, one was a dark chestnut and the other was a chestnut sorrel. My lather was not only a noted importer of running horses, but a fa- mous breeder of the thoroughbred as well. 1 rode the black stallion at the first Bull Run battle, where 1 commanded the Hampton Le- gion. At the famous cavalry fight at Brandy Station with Pleasanton, in 1863,1 rode t
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 548 ©te gvseb&c axx2> §pixvt»man* [Jone 9,1894 The Thoroughbred in 'War. " When I went to the war in 1861," wrote Senator Wade Hampton, " I took with me three thoroughbred stallions. One was black, one was a dark chestnut and the other was a chestnut sorrel. My lather was not only a noted importer of running horses, but a fa- mous breeder of the thoroughbred as well. 1 rode the black stallion at the first Bull Run battle, where 1 commanded the Hampton Le- gion. At the famous cavalry fight at Brandy Station with Pleasanton, in 1863,1 rode the chestnut. He was a hard horse to control in a charge, and on that day he twice nearly car- ried me into the enemy's lines. I rode the chestnut sorrel at the great cavalry fight in the rear of Meade's army on the third day at, Gettysburg, and came near meeting the same j fate as that I escaped at Brandy Station. My \ experience with thoroughbreds is, in time of war, that they are safer horses with which to get away from the enemy than when you are going toward him, especially when on a gal- lop. But when it cames to endurance, one thoroughbred will kill three cold-blooded horses in a campaign. They will go further with less food, go faster and show more cour- age in the face of danger. I have ridden the stallions I mention into Federal batteries and they never flinched. All of them werewoHnded three or four times, but they pulled through. 1 think a body of men mounted on entire horses would prove much more formidable in a charge than the same force mounted on geld- ings of the same blood. Our ancestors (in an- cient times) always went to war on entire horses, and in order that their presence might not be betrayed their nostrils were slit, so that the horses could not neigh. The Arabs in their journeys prefer entire horses, as they seem to have more courage, sense and endur- ance than mares or geldiugs. John Morgan owed his success in the late war to the fact that in his ra
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