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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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who hadpaid $175 (in gold) for him. Tee first saw the gray in themountains of West Virginia. He instantly became attachedto him, and always called him my colt. In the spring of 1862, this horse finally became the * Cincinnati was the son of Lexington, the fastest four-milethoroughbred in the United States, time 7:10:54 minutes. Cincinnatinearly equaled the speed of his half-brother, Kentucky, and Grant wasottered $10,000 in gold or its equivalent for him, but refused. He wasseventeen hands high, and in the estimation of Grant was the finest horsethat he had ever seen. Grant rarely permitted anyone to mount the horse—two exceptions were Admiral Daniel Amnicn and Lincoln. Ammensaved Grants life from drowning while a school-boy. Grant says: Lin-coln spent the latter days of his life with me. He came to City Point inthe last month of the war and was with me all the time. He was a finehorseman and rode my horse Cincinnati every day.—T. F. R. ( -2ns l mn fig; WW/ I/// Mi ■■,/. t. )
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GENERAL ALFRED PLEASONTON AND HIS HORSE This is the horse which General Pleasontou brought with him from Utah in 1861. This charger carriedhim through the Peninsular campaign when he was a major in the Second Cavalry, commanding the regi-ment and covering the march of the Federal army to Yorktown, August 18 and 19, 186L2. It bore him atAntietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, where Pleasontou distinguished himself by checking theflank attack of the Confederates on the Federal right, and perhaps it stepped forth a little more proudlywhen its owner was given command of the entire cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac on June 7,1863. This photograph was taken at Falmouth, Va., in the latter year. General Pleasontou is riding thesame charger in the photograph of himself and Custer used to illustrate the battle of Gettysburg on page ■2S7. ar-iforars of ICrtimz nnh Qlnwprra •$• *

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