The Press., 1898-06-02
HORSES OF THE WAR. FAMOUS CHARGERS RIDDEN BY
 GREAT GENERALS.

ed Under Htm-Lee's "Chunky" Gray.
 General James Grant Wilson, in his
 story of Famous American War Horses. !"
 has rescued from loss many interesting
 facts and preserved for the future much
 valuable information concerning the
 horses rode by the generals of the civil
 war. Cincinnati, the famous battle steed | of General Grant, was presented to him by
 a citizen of Cincinnati, who on his death
 bed sent for the general, then on visit to
 that city after the successful siege of Vicks- burg, and gave him the horse on condition
 that he should always be treated kindly. Grant accepted the horse, naming him l Cincinnati. It is claimed that he was
 son of the thoroughbred and great four
 mile runner, Lexington, that he had run
 in several races, had a fast record, and
 that the general was subsequently, offered $10 900 for him. This was the bay horse
 that Grant rode almost constantly during
 the campaign of the Wilderness. Soon after the close of tho war Cipcin- nati was retired to farm in Maryland,
 where the general frequently saw him and
 where he died in September, 1874 During the war Grant also rode a thor
 oughbred from southern Illinois named Egypt, and one called Jeff Davis which was captured on Davis plantation in Mis- sissippi.
 When Sheridan took his famous ride in the valley of the Shenandoah, immortal
 iZed in verse by T. Buchanan Read, he
 rode black horse, with small star, years old, named RienZi, which had been pur- chased in Michigan by an officer of the Second MiohiOan cavalry ud x1o f
 ed to Sheridan when he became colonel of
 that regiment in 1862 After the famous ride and the battle of Winchester the name of the horse was changed to Winchester.
 During the war he was in 90 battles and several times slightly wounded.
 Writing of him in 1876, Sheridan said
 He is over IF hands in height, power fully built, with a deep chest, strong shoulders, has a broad forehead clear eye, and is an animal of great intelligence. l rode him constantly from 1869 to the close of the war, in all the actions and in all the raids, as well as campaigns, in which took part. He was never i'll, and his staying powers were superb. At pres- ent he is a little rheumatic, fat and lazy, and so long as live he will be we'll taken care of.
 That brave officer, General Philip Rear ny, rode handsome and spirited white horse named Moscow, but generally called by the soldiers Whitey. Kearny lost an arm in the Mexican war, and when wish ing to draw his sword would take the reins between his teeth. The general also rode light bay called Decatur, which was shot through the neck at the battle of Fair Oaks, and a brown, known as Bayard, which the daring soldier was riding at the battle of Chantilly, when he came sudden ly upon Confederate regiment, and, turn ing to escape, was struck by a bullet at the base of the spine, killing him almost instantly.
 Old Spot, an Arabian, and Beppo, a chestnut and a superb jumper, were the two famous war horses of General Judson Fitzpatrick. At the battle of Aldie the general rode Beppo, and there the noble animal fell dead, shot through the heart Spot was captured from a Confederate colonel during the second year of the war. Sheridan once referred to him as "Kilpat- rick's celebrated calico horse"
 General Custer was one of the most &C., complished riders of all the generals of the | army, and in his four years service in the | civil war he had seven horses killed under | him, which it is believed is larger num- | Der than was lost by any other leader of l northern troops engaged in the war. Dur | ing the war Custer rode great many | horses. Among them was thoroughbred | stallion of great speed and spirit named | Don Juan. Jack Rucker was beautiful | bay, which the general acquired while in | command of the Michigan brigade, and he | rode him in a large number of battles. | Custer rode Jack Fucker at the battle of | Five Forks and was on him when he de- manded of General Longstreet the surren- der of the southern army. Dandy, horse purchased in Kansas, was a special favor ite with Custer and ridden by him on most ot his Indian campaigns. The last | horse which Custer rode, when at the head | of part of the Seventh United States cav airy in the horrible massacre of the Little Big Horn, June 25, l1.., was a chestnut named Vic, from Kentucky. After the lamentable death of the flaxen haired soldier General Clusters father, at his home in Michigan, would spend hours at time in the stable with one of the horses his brave son had ridden during the war.
 General Robert E. Lee had one favor lre war horse, Traveller, which he rode throughout the entire war, having pur- chased him in 1861, and he roGn him on the day of the surrender at Appomattox. Sheridan, who saw Traveller that day, de- scribed him to General Wilson as a Chunky gray horse, " yet he is said to have been over 16 hands high, little above half bred, of great courage and kindness, not possessing speed and carrying his head well up. For five years after the war, while General Lee was president of Wash ington and Lee university at Lexington, Traveller was ridden almost daily by the illustrious soldier of the Confederacy.
 General J. E. B. Stuart's chief war horse was the thoroughbred mare Vir- ginia, which he rode during the battle of Gettysburg. In the generals last battle, where he was mortally wounded, he rode B gray horse Another he had was hand some bay called Bullet
 General Wade Hampton had several horses killed under him during the war Described as one of the finest horses in the southern al my was Beauregard, magnif- cent animal of great boldness and spirit, l6I hands high. Of him the general writes: He was wounded at Gettysburg, at the same time that I was. When was taken to tho hospital, Beaure- gard, after being unsaddled and unbridled, followed mo there, lay down outside and lied"
 One of tie hest known horses of the Iouthern army was the beautiful dapple gray mare with white tail and mane, named Nellie Gray, the favorite war h, SC If General itz- Hugh Lee. She was killed D the battle of Winchester.
 General Wilson, in his entertaining arti .le, is silent regarding Sherman's famous lorse Tecumseh, that he rode from At ln- "a to the sea, and which is now in the University of Wisconsin at Madison.-Bos- on Herald
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