. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . es furnished were totally unfitted lor the service and should never have been re- COPYHIGHT, 191, REVIEW OF HEVIEAS CO. SENTRY GUARDING FEED FOR FEDERAL HORSES, 1864 ceivcrl. General Pope had in fact reported that our cavalry numbered on paper alioiit four tliousand men,but their horses were completely broken down, and there were not five hundred men, all told, capable ofdoing such service as should be expected of cavalry. The demand for horses was so great that in ma
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . es furnished were totally unfitted lor the service and should never have been re- COPYHIGHT, 191, REVIEW OF HEVIEAS CO. SENTRY GUARDING FEED FOR FEDERAL HORSES, 1864 ceivcrl. General Pope had in fact reported that our cavalry numbered on paper alioiit four tliousand men,but their horses were completely broken down, and there were not five hundred men, all told, capable ofdoing such service as should be expected of cavalry. The demand for horses was so great that in manycases they were sent on active service before recovering sufficiently from the fatigue incident to a longrailway One case was reported of horses left on the cars fifty hours without food or water, andthen being taken out, issued, and used for immediate service. Aside, too, from the ordinary diseases towliich horses are subject, the Virginia soil seemed to lie particularly productive of diseases of the feet. Thatknown as scratches disabled thousands of horses during the Peninsula campaign and the march of MEN WHO SHOD A MILLION HORSES This ])liot()graj)li presents another asijecl of the ;;ii;antic system whereby tlie Union eavah-y beianie organ-ized and equipi)e(l so as to prove irresistible after 18().5. In the fiscal year 1864 the Union Government boughtand captured nearly 210,000 horses. The anny in the field rciiuired aboul ,j(»() new horses every force alone refpiircd 150 new horses a day during the Shenandoah eaini)aign. At Giesboro, thebig rcrnonnt depot near Washington, they handled 170,r)2^2 horses in 1S()4. and in .Inne, 1S()(). they had
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