Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-10

about him. aside from his quiet manners,
was his gait, which he himself described as
being as easy as q cradle Evidently
the animal was OF the hobby horse species.
The mount selected for Jackson was quite
another animal In blood. disposition and
spirit. On a certain review the general.
dressed In new uniform In place OF the
dingy gray he had long worn, appeared on
the field mounted on his biooded charger.
but when the band struck up Hail to the
Chief. and his men burst into loud
cheers. the horse bolted, threw "Old Jack.
and trafled the new uniform In the dust.
Fancy was never thereafter displaced in his
affectionate esteem. He rode him in his
valley and penfnsular campaigns, and was
on his back on the evening of May 2 1858.
at Charlottesville, when he received the
wound which resulted In his untimely
death. For long time Fancy was lost
after the above event, but was finally found
by confederate soldier and subsequently,
given a home in the family of Jaekson's
father-in-law. DIR. Morrison Lincoln coun-
ty, N. c. Fancy lived to most extraordi-
nary age. dying about eighteen years ago.
tached to the Smithsonian Institution and
Is now on exhibition at the Confederate
Soldiers Home, Richmond. Va.
Sheridan's Famous Black.
The black gelding Sheridan code in his
campaigns in the southwest and In vir-
ginia was a Michigan-bred animal and
must have come from. good stock to have
performed such long and arduous service.
Those who knew Sheridan best admit that
he was a hard tasknaster. Little PHIL
was human dynamo. The nervous energy
confined within his compact frame was
sufficient to stock the organism of half
dozen commonplace beings. Champions of
the Morgan breed of horse have always
maintained that Sheridans fayorite war
charger was a Morgan, and from the de-
scrption Sheridan himself gives of lis char
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quite possible they are correct DESPITE
brevity of the stature Sheridan was sa az
spring figure on horse. Nature cast a
soldier after her own heart when she
brought forth Sheridan. Wherever and
whenever he appeared in public no placard
needed to be pinned to his back to tell one
he was soldier. He was war incarnate in
war times, and whether in peace or war he
was man of action--a man who did things.
Time. the crucibie in which public reputa-
tons are tested, will demonstrate that in
the facility to use infantry and cavalry eff
fectiyeiy at the psychological moment but
son-Napoleon Rienzi, Sheridan's war
charger. also lived to ripe old age. prev
ing that in some instances active service
is conducive to longevity.
Gen. Joseph E Johnston's favorite mount
was a beautiful thoroughbred bay mare
called Fannie. Although she carried her
master through numerous battles she was
never wounded, and the general never seri-
ously but once, which occurred on his re-
treat to Richmond in 1862. After the war
Fannie was retired to farm. where she
spent her remaining days in leisure.
Longstreet Connoisseur
Gen. Longstreet was a connoisseur of
horsefesh. The best was none too good
for him. His favorite charger was hand
some sixteen-hands bay geding caller Hero
by thoroughbred Red Eye, and he by
co of no OH tod ,-bn
ty-eisht races at one, two three and four
mile heats and won forty-ffve. Boston was
by Timmoleon. his dam being a daughter
Of Balls Florizel, which John Randolph
once said was never beaten ana never felt
the tGrch of wnlp or spur. Boston sired
Lexington while inmate of the stables
of Senator Blackburu's father. Hero. in
variably pronounced by Longstreets Irish
groom Haro, was the generals mount at
Gettysburg and also in the Wilderness.
where his master was desperately wounded
while on his back.
Gen. Jeb Stuart had many mounts in his
strenuous, but short military career. His
favorite was a thoroughbred mare called
Virginia. In his last battle at Yellow Tav-
ern, where he met Sheridans forces, he
rode handsome gray gelding which made
the great cavalry leader a conspicuous
mark for federal bullets. Another horse of
which the general was fond was hand
some bay called Bullet.
Gen. Wade Hamilton, who succeeded
Stuart in command of the confederate cav
airy of the Army of Northern Virginia, had
SO many horses wounded and killed under
him that it is hard to keep account of them.
More than any other officer in the service
OF the south he had large reserves of horse
flesh to draw from, and of the very pest
blood in the country. His father was not
only a very large breeder of thoroughbreds,
bat imported numerous noted horses from
England. the home of the modern thorough
bred. The most noted runner the Hamp-
tons owned was the famous Black Maria.
which in one race of split heats ran twenty
miles, an event unparalleled up to that date.
Gen. Hampton rode none but horses of the
proudest lineage. The one he best liked,
on account of his superb courage and en-
durance was a highlands bay, and de-
scribed is the handsomest horse in the con-
federate army He was named Beauregard.
He was wounded at Gettysburg soon after
his master was borne from that stricken
field. He followed the general to the hos
pital There he was unsaddled and un-
side the hospital tent he died.
Fitz Lee a Bold Rider
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, like Stuart and
Hampton, was bold and ubiquitous rider.
and like them also had many mounts dur
ing the civil war. No finer horseman ever
drew rein than this favorite son of Virginia.
In war days he was slender and supple and
wfthaI muscular All the Lees rode like
centaurs; It was their birthright. His
choice of mounts was a beautiful dapple
gray mare with name and tail like silver,
and he called her Nellie Gray, the title OF
his favorite ballad Nellie Gray was killed
while under the general at the battle of
Winchester, when Sheridan drove Early up
the valley.
Gen. w. T. Sherman did not care so very
much for style In his mounts, but he would
demand that the horses In his menage
should look well fed should be well groom
ed and able to carry him wherever he
wan n 90 a fool horse ha
could not be taught to stand fire, he would
not own long During the four years of
war perhaps a score OF horses passed
through his hands. The horse that stood
him best, and which he rode on the march
to the sea and at the grand review In
Washington. was Old Cumph He was a
large-sized bay or brown geding, muscular
In all his proportions and horse of great
gameness. Whenever the general could be
induced to mellow up and talk on war times
(Which was infrequenD be always took oc-
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