The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-17

his staff vainly endedVoring to over
 take and stop the black stallion in his
 wild course. At length an orderly, dis
 covering Lincolns danger and being 1 mounted on an old race horse with s
 record of great speed, put spurs to him and, lying almost flat upon the horses
 neck, speedily came to the front and
 amid the widest cheering from the
 thousands present, overlook the runa-
 way, seized the bridle and the president | was saved from a fate that might
 have been even more serious than that
 which befell Grant at New Orleans in 1 the previous September. Lincolns lost
 hat trampled under foot by the horses
 of the pushing cavalcade of generals
 with their staffs, was replaced by an
 army cap, and the review closed with
 cut further incident.
 l Banks Shenandoah and Charlie. General Nathaniel P Banks an &C., complished horseman, possessed two beautiful bay chargers while in com l mand of the department of the gulf.
 When General Grant visited New Or
 leans in September 1863, a review of the Thirteenth corps, recently arrived from Vicksburg was held in his honor. Banks rode his greatest favorite, Shen- andoah, purchased In Virginia, and Grant was mounted on his other horse, Charlie who had been wounded in the battle of Cedar Mountain, August, 1862.
 After the review the above officers, with their staffs and many others, in- cluding Lorenzo Thomas, the adjutant- general of the United States army, then organizing regiments of colored troops in Louisiana, were invited by wealthy planter to luncheon party. Before the entertainment was conclu- ded trial of speed on the shell road was arranged by General Thomas be- tween Grant, mounted on Charlie, and a young cavalry colonel who was the owner of a Kentucky thoroughbred bay called Donna. As they sped along, neck and neck. on the Carrolton road, the riders, in turning a sharp bend of the road, came suddenly face to face with an approaching train, which, to- gether with a shriek of the locomotive, caused the spirited Charlie to swerve from the course, throwingN the general straight over his head.
 Grant Injured
 This unfortunate accident confined Grant to his bed for several weeks, and, perhaps, was in measure re- sponsible for the defeat of the north ern army at Chickamauga, when oth- erwise he would have arrived in season to avert the disaster that overlook the Union forces commanded by General Rosecrans. As soon as the general was able to move about on crutches he pro- ceeded to Chattanooga, and soon re- lieved that beleaguered town by gain- ing great victory over General Bragg. For two months after his fall, Grant could not walk without the aid of a cane and crutoh,
 At the close of the civil war Charlie was brought to the north, and for many years was kindly cared for at the | Massachusetts home of General Banks, | in Waltham, where he died and was buried The beautiful Virginia bay en- joys the unique distinction of being the | only horse, among the many score that he mounted, that ever unseated the H. lustrous soldier Grant, who was noted for his consummate riding in boy hood, and as a cadet at the United States Military academy of the class of '43, of which there are now G90D but three survivors -Deshon, French and Franklin.
 Meade's Baldy
 The favorite warhorse of the hero of Gettysburg was raised in the west. Baldy, who was a bay with a white face and feet, saw his first service at the battle of Bull Run, where he re- TJa urnq rid6an at hat time by Colonel David Hunter, Having entirely recovered from his in uries, he was purchased by General Meade in the following September Baldy was shot, though not badly lurt, in the second battle of Bull Run, ind was wounded through the neck at : Antietam but this also proved to be ,light, and he soon recovered. He re- eived his last and more serious wound II the afternoon of July 2, 1868, in the ,attle of Gettysburg.
 General Meade had just ridden to the ront of the left center of the long bat le line, as the endorsements were be- ng hurried forward to the support of hat part of the army, when a bullet assed through the right pantaloon leg f Meade, as we'll as the flaps of the addle, and then into Baldys body be- ween the ribs where it remained. When shot, the steed came to stand till and staggered a little, but very oon recovered. He could not, howev- r, be induced to go forward, and en- ' eavored to turn away to the rear; no - mount of coaxing or urging on the art of his master could induce him to love on. The general, dismounting. ? 4marked: "Baldy is finished this S me for it is the first occasion that he