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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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MEN WHO SHOD A MILLION HORSES This ))liot()graj)li presents another asijecl of the ;;ii;antic system whereby tlie Union eavah-y beianie organ-ized and equipi)e(l so as to prove irresistible after 18().5. In the fiscal year 1864 the Union Government boughtand captured nearly 210,000 horses. The anny in the field rciiuired aboul ,j(»() new horses every day.Sheridans force alone refpiircd 150 new horses a day during the Shenandoah eaini)aign. At Giesboro, thebig rcrnonnt depot near Washington, they handled 170,r)2^2 horses in 1S()4. and in .Inne, 1S()(). they had
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. PART OF THE GIGANTIC ORG.iXIZATION OF THE FEDERAL CAVALRY only 32 left. This was exclusive of 12,000 or 13,000 artillery horses handled at the same depot. All theseanimals had to be shod. This photograph sho\\s some of the men who did it, with the implements of theirtrade. The army in the field kept this army at home busy supplying its manifold needs. The Southernersonly array of men was at the front. At home, they had only an army of women, knitting, wea\-ing, andsewing for the ragged soldiers in the field. The men wholesale had left their businesses and enlisted. azSSMMSm riiautzatinu of tlir iFriirrcil (Eaualrij ^ 4-

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