RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



At the Universal Exposition at St. Louis in 1904 

 the gaited saddle horse from Kentucky, Missouri, 

 and other States was much in evidence, and thousands 

 of critical observers from all parts of the world dis- 

 covered that he was a horse of ceremony and action. 

 He showed that he could trot under saddle, as well 

 as pace, and this appealed strongly to the imagina- 

 tion of those brought up in the ceremonious school. 

 Ceremony adds to the discipline, the efficiency of the 

 army, and the gaited horse, General Castleman con- 

 tends, is the ideal officer's mount. At one of the 

 Louisville Horse Shows I was acting as a judge, with 

 General Nelson A. Miles, and the then Command- 

 ing Officer of the U. S. Army was inclined to adopt 

 the views of the President of the American Saddle 

 Horse Breeders' Association. In our Civil War the 

 cavalry of the Confederate Army was wonderfully 

 effective, and the best horses employed in it were 

 gathered from such riding States as Kentucky, Ten- 

 nessee, Missouri, and Virginia. General Phil Sheri- 

 dan, like General Grant, was an admirer of horses, 

 but in his famous ride in the Valley of Virginia to 

 Winchester, " twenty miles away," he did not use 

 the kind of horse on which the artist placed him in 

 a picture which gained popularity, because this draft- 

 like horse would not have covered the ground in 

 the specified time. General George A. Custer, an- 

 other distinguished cavalry leader of the Civil War, 

 and who met a tragic death on the plains, was par- 

 tial to the type of saddle horse found in Kentucky, 



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