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The Romney Expedition: A Concluding Incident “Worthy of Notice”
Postscript to a Series I couldn’t find the right place to add this in the previous posts, but it was so entertaining that I wanted to include it somewhere. The story is included in the 1889 The Civil War in … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Common Soldier
Tagged 8th Ohio, horses, Romney Expedition, Romney-160
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The Effects of the Wilson-Kautz Raid through Newspaper Advertisements (part two of two)
ECW is pleased to welcome back Tim Talbott (part two of two) Evidence of the amount of disorder the Union horsemen wreaked on the region’s citizens during the Wilson-Kautz Raid appears in numerous newspaper advertisements placed by individuals seeking to reclaim … Continue reading
Posted in Campaigns, Cavalry, Civilian, Newspapers, Primary Sources, Slavery
Tagged Emancipation Proclamation, Henry Wise, horses, mules, Petersburg, Petersburg Daily Express, Ream's Station, Richmond Daily Dispatch, Slavery, Slaves, Tim Talbott, Wilson-Kautz Raid, Wilson-Kautz-newspapers
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An Equine Casualty on the Road to Gettysburg
The citizens of the Loudoun Valley awoke on Sunday morning, June 21, 1863, not to the sound of church bells. Instead, the thunder of cannon ripped through the region as the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia sought to … Continue reading
The Ballad of Black Bess
[Editor’s Note: With all that’s happening about Confederate monuments these days, it’s all right to remember a time when monuments to Confederate heroes became a source of humor.] Robert E. Lee had Traveller and Stonewall Jackson his Little Sorrel. Bedford … Continue reading
Posted in Civil War in Pop Culture, Memory, Monuments
Tagged Ballad of Black Bess, Bell Wiley, Black Bess, horses, john hunt morgan, Lexington
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2018 Year in Review: #1
We’ve reached #1—our most-read post from 2018! 1) Equestrian casualties at Gettysburg by Sarah Kay Bierle (July 11, 2018) “At Gettysburg, the dead and injured horses and mules covered the landscape – left unburied and untreated longer than the soldiers,” … Continue reading
Posted in Year in Review
Tagged equestrian, horses, Sarah Kay Bierle, Year in Review 2018
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Thinking About These Photographs
Compared to the number of Civil War photographs of soldiers, civilians, camps, and battlefields, posed photos of horses are rare. Clicking through Library of Congress’s online archives, though, I found some real photographic gems in this category. Looking closer at … Continue reading
Stonewall’s Horses
Early in 1861, John Harman and Thomas J. Jackson inspected a small herd of horses which had been discovered in a captured railroad boxcar. Jackson turned the horses over to the Confederate government and purchased two for his military use.[i] … Continue reading
Never Mind the Helmet, Here Comes the Cavalry!
The riding helmet was small for me, so it looked like black puffball mushroom on my head. It was good enough for my purposes, though. I would be taking a couple horseback laps around an indoor ring, going only at … Continue reading
Posted in Arms & Armaments, Cavalry, Common Soldier, Ties to the War
Tagged Brandy Station, cavalry, Eric Wittenberg, horses, Stephanie Mackowski
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ECW Weekender: The Civil War Horse Memorial
The old gray mare—she ain’t what she used to be. Or so the old song goes. And such was the case for the millions of equestrians conscripted into service, North and South, during the Civil War. One-point-five million of them … Continue reading
Posted in ECW Weekender, Monuments, Ties to the War
Tagged Civil War Horses, horse memorial, horses, Richmond, statues, Virginia Historical Society
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