Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-24


 "The infantry service in the volunteer said an old cavalryman on Friday, Fsand our cavalry service ought to have made us .na- tion of good riders, but for some reason it did not. good many men sit horse very well, ' he continued, as Mayor Harrison pass ed on his Kentucky horse, 'fbut where is the man who rides & horse as General Rous- seau did?' Rousseau always had fine horse, and both he and the horse took pride in the fact. On parade on the march or in the battle Rousseau and his horse were always conspicuous figures.
 "Rousseau's natural dash when he was on horseback often carried him to the danger line l remember one occasion when my company was on picket duty on the Granny White Pike, south of Nashville. Rousseau and his staff were outside the lines About 10 o'clock at night they came dashing up to the picket line, and when the word halt was given by the vedettes the old battle horse which Rousseau was riding and which he was so proud of took it as challenge and went forward like the wind The vedettes fired, as in duty bound, and there was considers ble commotion along the line. After time Rousseau rode back to explain. He closed with this remark: T don't care for myself, but you know, boys, you might have hit the horse.'
  said an old Twelfth Ohio man, land it play ed a rather dramatic part on the day that the colonel was shot. This was at the Carnifex Ferry, when the Union troops ordered to charge the intrenchments held by the Con, federates. There furious struggle and in the midst of it Colonel Lytle was shot and fell from his horse, one of the finest animals in the brigade. The old wsr-horse had been started 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 breastworks, and was shot after he had broken through the lines"
 FfAt Stone River" said Nineteenth Hi nois man, "one of our Illinois generals had a :.orse shot under him just in the turn of battle, the nd day of January. Ser- eral of the boys sprang forward to help him up, but dazed and bruised as he was, he on- ly said, Catch me horse' He repeated this time and again, and as there were several horses galloping about rideriess, one was brought to him. This horse had been car eering over the battlefield, circling here and there without aim, but the minute he felt a rider in the saddle he started at gallop for the front, and the generals command, seeing him make bee line in the right direction, started after him like great flock of black birds"
 'sWe had in our regiment" said an old h. ] diana officer, ''an old horse called the Star gazer, which was kept for the use of the off | cer of the day. The field officers didn't care to have their horses go into the hands of any captain or lieutenant who might be detail 1 ed to act as officer of the day, and so an old scrub had been picked up and kept for use in this department. It was my fate to be an officer of the day at Lookout Mountain, and was riding old Stargazer along the road on the ledge when the colonel overlook me, riding his splendid war horse. He challeng ed me for a race. gave Stargazer touch and, I went into camp quarter of a mile ahead of the colonel. This led to the discov- cry that the horse which had been ridiculed could make better time than any other in the regiment"