i66 THE HORSE 



Advertiser of December 17, 1861, describing the 

 march of this regiment through the city of Newark 

 on its way to Washington, said: 



The Green Mountain boys arrived about four o'clock, and 

 marched up Market Street amid the Hveliest tokens of enthus- 

 iasm. The horses are small, but compact and sinewy, and 

 evidently capable of great endurance. It was the general remark 

 that so splendid a body of animals had never been seen together 

 in this city. 



One of the best-known riders in the United States 

 Army is Lieutenant Ralph M. Parker, who for sev- 

 eral years was stationed at Norwich University in 

 Vermont — a state institution of semi-milicary char- 

 acter. At this school the students are instructed in 

 riding and in cavalry drill, Morgan horses only being 

 used, and Lieutenant Parker, in a recent number of the 

 American Horse Breeder, thus describes his experience 

 with them: 



While, as a rule, for military purposes many of them possess 

 backs a trifle longer than the ideal cavalry back, and the withers 

 are often a trifle low, the other physical qualifications far more 

 than offset these imperfections, which exist in only a portion of 

 the breed. They are low and well-rounded, heavily muscled, but 

 with fairly clean limbs, and generally possess conformation 

 insuring considerable agility, endurance, and forage economy. 

 Their heads are beautiful, ears small and well set on with an 

 air of alertness that is one of the attractions of the Morgan. 

 The forehead, with its pronounced Morgan form, is indicative 

 of a large brain, while the eyes, muzzle, nostril, jaw, and the 

 manner in which the head is usually put on, with a neck of 

 medium length and excellent shape, sloping shoulders, fine 



