How did the Cavalry Feed Their Horses on The March?
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2019
- After riding "40 miles a day on beans & hay", the federal cavalry during the American Civil War had to allow their horses to graze and eat enough to replace the calories they burned while riding hard on campaign. How did they do this without the horses running off, or having to hold the reins the whole time? This week on the 11th OVC, lets learn how the cavalry allowed their horses to graze while in the field.
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The 1891 cavalry regs, required the horses when in garrison to be fed 6 pounds of grain a day, oats or corn, and the horse was entitled to 100 lbs of straw a month for bedding, mucked daily. They ate better than the troops.
Through the many years of relic hunting and metal detecting Northern Virginia from Washington, DC to Chancellorsville, Bull Run to Culpeper, I’ve recovered only one Picket Pin. You would think more were lost.
I like how you always use primary sources
These are interesting videos. I have no experience with horses and this sheds light on another aspect of the civil war.
Love what you’re doing bud! Thanks for sharing our history with the younger generations.
Facinating stuff.. given me a lot of food for thought with regard to how the cavalry were supplied during the Great War, especially during the advances of1918
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Great video. I would never have thought that there would be so much information available about this kind of equipment.
Great job on your video it was fun and interesting.
Great report !! Thank you sir !!!
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Great information. Thank you
Another cracking piece :-)
Again very useful information.
Good stuff thanks for sharing
Wow, the combo of your horses wearing hobbles & being picketed is very cool - Like they would have been!
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very informative thanks
Great job! The details you provide are indispensable. Can you do a video on how Union cavalry attended to troopers' wounds after a skirmish a long way from camp? Thanks!
Steve, did you also have a chance to look at any CS ordinance returns? I know they are very lean compared to US ordinance reports. I actually have a small return found in Jim McGhee's Campaigning With Marmalade, of one of my Grandpa's Cavalry Regiment (8th MO CAV REG, CS) but it is limited and only partially in 1863 through their time in Little Rock prior to be pushed to Camden, AR for the rest of the WBTS (sans MG Price's MO expedition in Fall 1864.)
Thanks for these 2 vids on picket pins & Lariats. Of course, you are the standard in Cavalry research and sharing it on UA-cam! I try to share it regularly on our company. FB page for Co I, 8th TX CAV Terry's Texas Rangers.
The rope could have been of a lesser quality than requested too...
Replacement could have done locally too, as it is rope and easily obtained via sutlers, town stores, etc...
Was there a option to replace rope with a chain?
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Weren't you a second lieutenant just a couple months ago? Love your vids...keep up the good work.
LOL, apparently I suck at my job and got demoted!
Great info and thanks. I'm assuming the horses in the background of this video are hobbled?
Ridgely Davis , yes. The one in the foreground is picketed while all the other horses are hobbled.
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How do you train your horse for a picket line?
Could you do a video on hobbleing?
Caleb, great comment! We do have a plan for hobbles, however it is far down our list. Since the US Cavalry didn't issue hobbles to the standard rank and file of cavalry regiments, it is not a priority at this time. But we do have it on the agenda! Thanks for watching!
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They may have rotated their horses after a period of time. To allow tied horses to recuperate
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"360-foot-long football field"... Oh, you mean SOCCER. I thought you were an American; guess not. That was a LOT of reading; I'm guessing more and more of the Union cavalry was part of the siege of Richmond/Petersburg and didn't picket their horses.