Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-07-06
HOW HORSES ACT IN BATTLE.
Some Remarkable Instances of Equine
 Intelligence.

"It is remarkable how quickly horses adapt themselves to the mill tary survice," said Capt. Cox to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter. "Every artiileryman knows that they learn the bugle calls and the evolutions quicker than the men as rule. For one thing they soon acquire uniform gait, which Is about the same as the route step or the usual marching step. Ii the horses did not acquire the same gut as the infantry there would be varying distances between the different arms of the service-that is, between the ineantry and calvalry, artillery and the commanders and their escorts.
 In the drills in the artillery ser vice the horses will themselves pre- serve their alignment as well as the infantry. 1 snail always remember ! one illustration of this trait which I noticed at an exciting and critical period of battle In order to save some of our infantry from being sur rounded and captured, I quickly mounted the cannoneers on the guns and put the whole battery at dead glllup across a stretch of meadow about hall mile wide. I was quite accustomed to such sights, but when We were half way across the field 1 noticed the array, and for moment 1 was lost in admiration of the mag niiicent picture. Every driver was plying whip and spur, the great guns were rocking and laundering over the ground, and every horse, reeking with loam and full of animation and ex- citement, was straining every muscle as galloped forward; ; yet it seemed to me that a straight line drf wn along in i front would have touched the heads of the lead horses i'll front of the six i guns. That was an artillery charge, one of the most thrilling sights in the ! evolution of war.
 Ut is surprising how quickly they learn the bugle calls. Alter we had ueen in service some time my first sergeant once asked me what call that was, as the bugle blew some command. That's a pretty question for you to i dsk,' 1 said How in thunder do you ! he said, but my horse knows Let
 he first note of the feed or water cal oe blown and there will be terrible stamping, kicking and neighing. Once, in terrible storm, our horses and ~everal other hatterles' broke loose, ,ud there was d wild rush among the artillery men to get horses ill the fnor,,ipU II waS pvcitaunout o,J +b 4, horses were hard to get, but when ordered the bugler to mount stump and blow the feed call the horses all made such mad rush for our battery hat the men could hardly get out of he way quickly enough.
 "N hen IL comes to battle a horse seems to know everything that is go- ing on, but he does his duty nobly ,iiI setms to te ill his element. He
 nters into the spiri, Of the battle like | human being He shows no fear of !eath. and Ii is singular that if his mate is shot down he will turn to look at him and seem pleased. A horse in my battery was once struck ny piece of shell, which split his skull so one si,ie was loose The driver turned him loose, but he walked up ny the side of the gun and watched Ine firing, and when shot was fired would look away in the direction of the enemy as if 10 see the effect of the -hot. N hen d shell would burst near ny he would calmly turn and look at it. Nhel. he saw his own team going pack for ammunition he ran to hi. o~n place and galloped back to the cai>sUn wiih the rest. W hen the lieut. enant pushed him aside to put in another horse he looked at the other one sCrrowiully while he was being harnessed up, and when he seemed to realize that there was no further use for him he laid down and died The lieutenant strongly asserted that he died of a broken heart.
 At the time that \dams,' Jackson's and Preston's brigades charged at Murfrcesboro some officer was killed and the brigades were driven back But the fallen officers horse had not 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 a large, fine animal, his nostrils were extended wide, his eyes fairly blazed, and he clothed the bit with his teeth as he came on. He came like the wind and with his saddle-fiaps flying he looked as if he were flying himself, in stead of running. Everybody gave him wide berth, and 1 called to the infantry that I would give $l00 to the man who would catch him, but no ont tried it, and he is running yet for al 1 know Of him."
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