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Killed at First Bull Run, the horse Ballou was riding when he received his mortal wound at that battle. Jinny. Isaac R. Trimble. Kangaroo. Ulysses S. Grant. One of many secondary horses used by Grant. Kentuck. George B. McClellan. McClellan's favorite horse.
The horsemanship of Ulysses S. Grant has been widely acclaimed by his contemporaries and historians as exceptional. Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) was a commanding general during the Civil War and a two-term U.S. president. Born in Ohio near the Ohio River, Grant grew up around horses, which he came to admire and love, possessing a natural ...
Old Baldy (horse) Old Baldy in 1863. Old Baldy (ca. 1852 – December 16, 1882) was the horse ridden by Union Major General George G. Meade at the Battle of Gettysburg and in many other important battles of the American Civil War .
Gray in color with dark point coloration. Traveller (1857–1871) was Confederate General Robert E. Lee 's most famous horse during the American Civil War. He was a gray American Saddlebred of 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm), notable for speed, strength and courage in combat. Lee acquired him in February 1862 and rode him in many battles.
Riding a rail, sketched by Andrew W. Warren in November 1864. The first variation of the wooden horse is a triangular device with one end of the triangle pointing upward, mounted on a sawhorse -like support. The victim is made to straddle the triangular "horse." Weights or additional restraints were often added to keep the victim from falling off.
Slave quarters existed in northern states (in what would become the Union contra the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War), but they were less common and few have been preserved. Surviving examples of " free state " slave quarters exist at the Isaac Royall House in Medford, Massachusetts , and at the Lott House in Brooklyn . [ 25 ]
Malinda Blalock (1842 – 1901 or 1903) was a female soldier who fought on both sides during the Civil War. She followed her husband and joined the 26th North Carolina Regiment of the Confederate Army, disguising herself as a young man and calling herself Samuel Blalock. The couple eventually escaped across Confederate lines and joined the ...
The Horse Artillery Brigade of the Army of the Potomac was a brigade of various batteries of horse artillery during the American Civil War . Made up almost entirely of individual, company-strength batteries from the Regular Army 's five artillery regiments, the Horse Artillery operated under the command umbrella of the Cavalry Corps.