Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-07-30
Stories About Horses IN Battle.

Stories About Horses In Hattie.
The infantry service is The volun-
teer army made US q nation Of good
walkers said an old cay alrymanre.
Gently, "and our cavalry service ought
to have made us q nation Of good
riders, but for some reasonit did not.
A good many men sit d horse very
we'll" he continued, as Mayor Harri-
son passed on his Kentucky horse,
"but where is the man who rides q
horse as Gen. Rousseau did? Rousseau
always had q fine horse, and both he
and the horse took pride in the fact.
On parade or on ther1arch or inbat-
tie, Rousseau and his horse were al
ways conspicuous figures 81 ~ II
'tRousseau's natural dash when he
was onhorseback often carried him to
the danger.iine. I remember one oc-
casion when my company. was on
picket duty, on the Granny White
Pike, south Of Nashville, Rousseau and
his staff were outside the lines. About
ten o'clock at night they came dashine
up to the picket line and when the W ord
halt was given by the vedettes the old
battle-hors which Rousseau was rid
ing and viii III he was SO proud OF took
it as q challenge and went forward
like the wind. The vedettes fired, as
in duty bound, and there was con-
siderable commotion along the line.
After time Rousseau rode back to
explain. He closed with this remark,
I don't care formyself, but you know,
boys, you might have hit the horse -
."Col. Lytle had a. horse OF that
kind. said all old Twelfth Ohio man,
land it played a. rather dramatic part
on the day that the Colonel was shot.
This was at Carnifex Ferry. when the
Union troops were ordered to charge
the Entertainments held by the Con
federates. There was q furious strug.
gle, and in the midst OF it Col. Lytle
was shot and fell from his horse, one
of the finest animals in the brigade,
The old war. horse had been started
forward, ard when his rider fell he
went forward as though he still were
guided by the man who had intended
to charge through the rebel lines. The
horse dashed up to and over the rebel
beast works, and was shot after he
had broken through the lines"
cat stone river" said Nineteenth
Illinois man, lone OF our Illinois
generals had q horse shot under
him just at the turn OF the battle, on
the I'd day OF January. Several Of
the boys sprang forward to help him
up, but dazed and bruised as lie was,
he onl y said Catch me a horse He
repeated this time and again, and as
there were several horses gallopint
about riderless one was brought to
him. This horse had been careerine
over the attle-iield, circling here and
there without aim, but the minute he
felt a rider in the saddle he started at
a gal]op for the front, and the Gener-
aps command, seeing him make bee
line in the right direction, started al.
ter him like a great flock of black.
birds"
eve had in our regiment, said an
old Indiana officer, " an old horse cal
led The StargaZer, which WAS kept for
the use OF the officer OF the day The
field officers didn't care to have their
horses 60 into the hands OF any captain
or lieutenant who might be detailed to
act as officer OF the day, and so an old
scrub had been picked up and kept for
use in this department. 1t was my
fate to be officer Of the day at Look
out Mountain, and [ was riding old
Stargazer along the road on the ledge
when the Colonel overlook me, riding
bis splendid war horse He challeng-
ed me for a race. / gave Stargazer a
touch and / went into camp quarter
of q mile ahead OF the Colonel. This
led to the discovery that the horse
which had been ridiculed could make
better time than any other in the regi-
ment. "-Chicago Inter-Ocean.