The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-24
Horses Still Play
 Important Part In
 European Conflict

The European allies expenditure in the United States of nearly $1oo.0eO.- o0O for war horses in a little over year of the present conflict is a good many times the whole expenditure of both North and South for the same object during the four years of the Civil War, says the New York Sun.
 When cession began Uncle Sam was almost horseless, but when the firing upon F,t. Sumter was followed by the call for volunteers, cavalry xegfmerlts were rapidly organized, and many of the volunteer cavalrymen, both officers and priyates, rode their sewn horses, taken from the blow, from the doctors rig, the teamsters wagon, from the racing stable.
 The South was especially rich in mules at the opening of the war, and they were much used in Confederate wagon trains.
 The mule earned during the Civil War his place of honor in American humor, for the Confederate soldier was in irrepressible; joker, and the mule. as seen in mass as he emerg- ed from his fellows by reason of high Iy developed mulish qualities. was a living, moving, ~squealing, kicking joke The ancient saying that no body ever saw a. dead mule received it's qutetus upon the battIehe1ds and highways of the Civil War.
 Horses from every northern and western state came with the invad- ing northern hosts to be accHmated south of the Potomac. Many of them never found time to complete the pro- ,ceze9cfo or tTies muddy roads of Virginia were deadly for the north hern artillery horses, and hard enough upon the better beasts ridden by the cavalry. Both sides seized the horses in the a traditional fondness for good hor- ses- By the time the conflict was well on there were few sound horses left Pn the Virginia plantations.
 THegrDma1lce of the horse survived the e5igf+5 5Nars sEhe North and South rang with tales of the famous war horses One of Lees came with him through the conflict and was long an object of southern admiration in peace. Sheridan's was embalIned in a patriotic poem. Gen Joshua R. Chamberlain brought home the horse he had ridden when he had the honor of receiving the Confederates' bat tie flags in surrender at Appomattox and the beast waA for years an object of popuIar interest in his paddock at BrunsJ fSk sd He Tell fovesr a bluff on the annfversary of a famous. battle and was found dead by his master. Tho horse upon which the Confede- rate general, Robert Se1den Garnett, was killed at Carrick's ford in July, a1s61, afterward fell into the hands of young Confederate surgeon.
 Grant let the surrendering Confed- crates at Appomattox take their horses home to help make the crop of that year. As to Uncle Sam, in spite of the dreadful sacrifice of horse flesh during those four years, he came out of the war the greatest own CT of horses on earth, probably the greatest owner of horses on earth. probably the greatest ever known
 As to Uncle Sarn's horses. he need ed them after the early summer of 1885 no more than he needed the worlds greatest army of veterans and the worlds greatest ffeet of warships. The beasts were examined. branded to indicate their condition and auction ed by thousands. Excellent horses went for very little, as did other mili- 4ary supplies.