. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . 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 Union Governments appro-priations for the purchase of horses for the period of the war mounted to $123,864,915. The avera

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . 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 Union 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 $ that approximately 825,760 horses were used in the Union 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.

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