. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . SHELTER FOR SIX THOUSAND HORSES AT GIESBORO Thirty-two immense stables, besides hospitals and other buildings, provided shelter for six thousand horsesat the big cavalry depot, District of Columbia, but most of the stock was kept in open sheds or in stockyards alone covered forty-five acres. The stables were large, well-lighted buildings with thou-sands of scrupulously clean stalls. The horses were divided into serviceable and unserviceable sixty per cent, of the horses received from the field for recupera
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . SHELTER FOR SIX THOUSAND HORSES AT GIESBORO Thirty-two immense stables, besides hospitals and other buildings, provided shelter for six thousand horsesat the big cavalry depot, District of Columbia, but most of the stock was kept in open sheds or in stockyards alone covered forty-five acres. The stables were large, well-lighted buildings with thou-sands of scrupulously clean stalls. The horses were divided into serviceable and unserviceable sixty per cent, of the horses received from the field for recuperation were returned to active thousand men were employed in August, 1863, to rush this cavalry depot to completion. Its main-tenance was one of the costly items which aggregated an expenditure by the Union Government of $1,000,-000 a day during the entire period of the war—an expenditure running even as high as $4,000,000 a THE BARRACKS AT GIESBORO
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