Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-01-03
MONUMENT STANDS
OVER GRAVE OF
RACE HORSE
Animal Was Good for Moth
ing But the Saddle and
Would viciously Attack
People It Did Not Like.


Necomh IN Ian. IA monument
l2 feet high. erected over the crave
Of horse. ~ an object ol ihtefeA. ~
thia community. Il marks the iae'
resting place Of Chickamau8a, ialtn-
lul warhorse which accompanied Col
H. H. waters Of this city through the
latter part OF the civil WAT
Colonel waters horse had been shot
froan under him at the battle Of stone
river or NurfrocebOro. December 81,
1859. IN the following spring while
atatloned al Cripple Creek, Tenn, p
ouartermnrter of General Paimcr'a a..
vision notified Colonel Waters that be
had horse which had been taken
from the enemy. The horse proved %
he q beautiful bay stallion that had
been the property Of Rev NJ. Haw-
klns and was appropriated By a major
m ha CoDfednrata army AZ ,ae bat
le oi rione riAei. q COloged Fellow.
freeman educated In ohio, was cap
tmred By the Coniederates. lie afect-
ed TO be glad to get back 10 slavery
and away from the Yankees, aud was
employed 10 forage for his captoTs,
For this purpose he was given AZ old
morse 70 rae. INV NAlf .tH'tf"n NA-~
troops encamped near the Union iinee,
he surreptisiously famed his horse by
driving a nail into Us foot he then
asked HIS employer for another horse
/ to ride. Tho major reluctantly let
him have the iine horse be had taken
from the Rev. Mr. Hawkins, charging
him to be very careful with f. The
NEGRO obeyed by making a Wild but
successful dash for the Union lines
and turned the horse over 70 the
Union quartermaster.
Colonel Waters paid S75 Tor him and
rode him during the remainder OF the
war. Chickamaugd was his first battle
and for good service In that engage
ment the soldiers OF Colonel Watera'
command mated the horse Chlckamau-
GA. He was a brave soldier" aud
would stand without the rein In the
thickest OF the light.
He was wicked. but fearless said
Colonel Waters. and would break
loose at any time to get at negro.
so we thought he must be Demo-
crat"
After the war Colonel Waters took
the horse To his home IN Illinois, but
as he was good for nothing but the
saddle, he was sold for Sil5. lie would
neither walk. trot nor run, only pace,
and this he could DO as fast SO most
horses could run. An attempt was
made 10 use him on a grocery wagon,
bat he was not FOR such plebeian serv-
ice and he was tried on the race track
where he made some fast records.
Finally the Rev. Mr.. Hawkins ap'
lpeared on the scene, having traced MS
horse 10 Macomb The minister valued
the horse highly, as he was familiar
With the animals Morgan pedigree,
Chickamauga In the meantime had
drited across the line into Iowa. A
resident Of Macomh hearing Of the
Rev Mr.. Hawkins desire 20 purchase
the horse formulated a scheme 10
hold him Up." He bought the horse
nj a low figure and refused the min
listers offer OF $1,000 for him, holding
lhim for a still higher Price. Before
THEY came 10 terms the crafty specu-
latOr lost the horse and he received
no money IN return for what he had
expended In his scheme, either
Chicknmaaga was kicked one night by
q large Percberon, so the hero oi
many battles had to be killed
Chickamauga was buried Mt the
Macomb fair grounds, near the race
track at which he had so often dis
tinguished himself.
A Macomb man had theory that d
certain stone quarrled there would
make good grlndstones and manu-
ments. II was soft and easily cut but
be thought Il would harden like a IA.
mana Ohio rtnnn 4ashon svUoafH a. tba
air. As an experiment he carved d
satisfactory and was discarded Some
admirers OF tho old horse. however Al
considerable expense, had II suitably
inscribed ana erected over his grave
10 Ia more OK q monument than
viii ever mark M! afatt, said Coz
ionel winters