. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . £...£.■■ 3F CO. WHERE THE FEDERAL ( A\ ALRY WAS TRAINED Giesborci. D. (., where the cavalry of the Arinj- of the Iotomac was remounted after August, 18fi.!. was also their drill anil training COPtRIGMT, 19)1, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. A BIG RESPONSIBILITY—FORT CARROL, GIESBORO, D. C. Millions of dollars worth of Government property was entrusted to the men who occupied these barracks at Fort Carrol, Giesboro,D. C. The original cost of the cavalry depot was
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . £...£.■■ 3F CO. WHERE THE FEDERAL ( A\ ALRY WAS TRAINED Giesborci. D. (., where the cavalry of the Arinj- of the Iotomac was remounted after August, 18fi.!. was also their drill anil training COPtRIGMT, 19)1, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. A BIG RESPONSIBILITY—FORT CARROL, GIESBORO, D. C. Millions of dollars worth of Government property was entrusted to the men who occupied these barracks at Fort Carrol, Giesboro,D. C. The original cost of the cavalry depot was estimated at a million and a quarter dollars, and there were immense stores of fodder,medicine, cavalry equipment, and supplies at the depot, besides the value of the horses themselves. The L nion Governments appro-priations for the purchase of horses for the period of the war mounted to $123,864,915. The average contract price per head was $140,so that approximately 825,766 horses were used in the tnion armies. Giesboro was the largest of the Governments cavalry depots,and it must have been an anxious time for those responsible for the preservation of all this wealth when Early threatened Washington. itnttsHuii T^nrars to tht lutmi (Eaualrij * 4- xmasMMmm Y^^^mm:, hours, the horses remained saddled for sixty hours. During
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