The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-02-20

| Ing the civil War he mad man.
| mounts, but the horse he liked hes
and priced most was small size(
| bay gelding, which was taken from
| the plantation of Jefferson Davis. il
| Mississippi, while the General was en-
gagged in the siege of Vicksburg, anG
| which he named JEFF Davis. JEFF
from the date Of ownership. was the
Generals constant companion. He
rode him on nearly all the stricken
| fields of the Southwest. The faithful
beast carried him safely through the
morasses, boys and entangsements oil
the Wilderness and along the bloody
trenches in the region around Spott
sylvania Court House. What the
General liked most about him, aside
from his quiet manners. was his gait
| which he himself described as being
as easy as cradle" Evidently the
horse 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 a new
uniform in place of the dingy gray
he had long worn, appeared on the
field mounted on his blooded 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 trailed the new uni
form in the dust. Fancy was never
fhoroof<or AievloooI tn of
ate esteem. He rode him in his val
ley and peninsular campaigns, and
was on his back on the evening Of
May 2, 1863, at Charlottesville,
when he received the wound which
reSRe cd in his untimely death. For
a long time Fancy was lost after the
above event, but was finally found by
Confederate soldier and subsequent
ly given a home in the family of
Jackson's father-in-law, DR.. Morrison,
Lincoln County, North Carolina. Fancy
lived to most extraordinary age, dy-
ing about eighteen years ago. His
skin was prepared by an expert at
tached to the Smithsonian Institution,
and is now on exhibition at the Con-
federate Soldiers Home. Richmond,
Va.
Sheridan's Famous Black.
The black gelding Sheridan rode in
his campaigns in the Southwest ard
In Virginia was Michigan bred an
imal and must have come from good
stock to have performed such long
and arduous service. Those who
knew Sheridan best admit that he
was hard taskmaster. Little
PHIL was a human dynamo. The
nervous energy confined within his
compact frame was sufficient to stock
the organism of half a dozen COM
beings. Champions of the
Morgan breed of horse have always
that Sheridan's favorite
war charger was Morgan, and from
the description Sheridan himself
gives of his characteristics and gen.
eral conformation it is quite possible
they are correct. Despite brevity Of
the stature Sheridan was an inspiring
dgure on a horse. Nature cast a
soldier after her own heart when she
brought forth Sheridan. Wherever
and whenever he appeared in public |
10 placard needed to be pinned to his
back to tell one he was soldier. He |
vas war incarnate in war times, and |
in peace OF war he was |
nan of action-a man who did things. |
Time, the crucible in which public
equations are tested, will demon
'trate that in the facility to use in
antry and cavalry effectively at the
moment but one other
'ver existed worthy of comparison-
Napoleon. Rienzi, Sneridan's war
'harger, also lived to a ripe age,
rowing that in some instances active
erviee is conducive of longevity.
General Joseph E. Johnston's fav-
rite mount was beautiful thorough
red bay mare named Fannie. AL
hough she carried her master
through numerous battles she was
ever wounded, and the General new
r seriously but once, which occurred
n his retreat to Richmond in 1862.
|
farm, where she spent her remain
ng days in leisure.
LOngstreet q COnnOisseur.
General Longstreet was a connois-
eur OF horsefiesh The best was
one too good for him. His favor
te charger was a handsome sixteen
ands bay gelding called Hero, by
thoroughbred Red Eye, and he was
on OF the celebrated Boston, Who'll
an forty-eight races at one, two
hree and four mile heats and won
orty-five. Boston was by Timmo-
con. his dam being a daughter Of
'all's Florfzel, which John Ran
olph once said was never beaten and
ever felt the touch of whip or spur.