Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-10-12
HOW HORSES ACT iN BATTLE.
tome Remarkable Instances of Equine In,
 telliCence,

"It is remarkable how uuickl3 horses adapt themselves to the mill taYy service, said Capt. Cox to a re- porter. Every artilleryman knows lhat they learn the bugle calls and the evolutions quicker than the men as rule. For one thing they soon ac quire a uniform gait, which is about the same as the ''route step" or the us ual marching step. If the horses did not acquire the same gait as the i'll fantry there would be varying distan- ces between the different arms of the service-that is. between the infantry nd the cavalry, artillery and the com manders and their escorts.
 ''1n the drills in the artillery ser
 vice the horses will themselves pre- serve their alignment as we'll as the infantry. shall always remem
 noticed at an exciting and critical period of a battle. In order to says some of our infantry from being sur rounded and captured 1 quickly mounted the cannoneers on the guns and put the whole battery at dead gallop across a stretch of meadow about half mile wide. was quito accustomed to such sights, but when we were half way across the field ] noticed the array, and for q moment ] was lost in admiration of the magnid cent picture. Every driver was plying whip and spur, the great guns were rocking and laundering over the ground, and every horse, rocking u-,fl o,1I f,,n # excitement, was straining every mus cle as he galloped forward; yet il seemed to me that straight linG drawn along in front would have touched the heads of the lead horseI in front of the six guns. That was ali artillery charge, one of the most thrill ling sights in the revolutions of war
 Tt Is surprising how quickly they learn the bugle calls. After we had been in service some time my frat ser geant once asked me what call tha was, as the bugle blew some com mand. That's pretty question foi you to ask, said. How in thunder do you know how to march2' Idon't know he said, but my horse knows. Let the first note of the feed or water call be blown and there will be a terri ble stamping. kicking and ,peighing. Once, in a terrible storm, our horses and those of several other batteries broke loose, and there was wild rush among the artillerymen to get horses in the morning. All was excitement and the horses were hard to get, but when 1 ordered the bugler to mount stump and blow the feed call the horses all made such a mad rush foi our battery that the men could hardl! get out Of the way quickly enough
 "When 1t comes to battle horse seems to know everything that is go ing on, but he does his duty nobly and seems to be in his element He enter into the spirit of the battle like hu man being He shows no fear of death and 1t Is singular that if his mate t shot down he will turn to look at hin and seem pleased A horse in my bat tery was once struck by a piece O. shell, which split his skull so that on, side was loose. The driver turned hin loose, but he walked up by the side O the gun and watched the firing, anl when a shot was fired would lool away in the direction of the enemy a if to see the effect of Sle shot Wher RShell would burst near by he would 1 calmly turn and look at it. When Inc saw his own team going back for am munitiOn he ran to his own place anC | galloped back to the caisson with the | rest When the lieutenant pushed | him aside to put in another horse Inc looked at the other one sorrowfully 1 while he was being harnessed up, anc | when he seemed to realize that there was no further use for him he lay down and died. The lieutenant strong ly asserted that he died of a broker heart.
 At the time that Adams, Jacksonf and Preston's brigades charged me al Murfreesboro some officer was killed and the brigades were driven back. But the fallen officers horse had no been taught to retreat and he did not He just came at full speed through the battery, and 1 tell you he looked simply grand. He was large, fine animal, his nostrils were extended wide, his eyes fairly blazed, and he clutched the bit with his teeth as he came on. He came like the wind, and with his saddle flaps flying he looked as if he were flying himself instead oi Everybody gave him a wide berth, and 1 called to the infantry that l would give $100 to the man whc { would catch him, but no one tried it i and he is running yet for all 1 know of him. San FrapciSco Chronicle
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