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the swamps of the Chickahominy. He was also in the 

 seven days' battles, and brought up at Harrison's Land- 

 ing with the Army of the Potomac. He then drove his 

 team back to Fort Monroe, where they were shipped, 

 with the animals of the Army of the Potomac, for 

 Washington. He was set to work as soon as he reached 

 a landing, and participated in hauling ammunition at 

 the second battle of Bull Kun. He then followed the 

 army to Antietam, and from that battle-field to Freder- 

 icksburg, where he hauled ammunition during the ter- 

 rible disaster under General Burnside. The team then 

 belonged to a train of which John Dorny was wagon- 

 master. "When General Hooker took command of the 

 army this team followed him through the Chancellor- 

 ville and Chantilly fights. It also followed the 

 Army of the Potomac until General Grant took com- 

 mand, when the train it belonged to was sent to City 

 Point. This brings us up to 1864. It was with 

 the army in front of Petersburg, and, during that win- 

 ter, the saddle mule was killed by the enemy's shot 

 while the team was going for a load of wood. In short, 

 they were worked every day until Richmond was taken. 

 In June, 1865, they were transferred back to the City 

 of Washington. It is now August, 1866, and they are 

 still working in the train, and make one of the very best 

 teams we have. I refer now to the leaders and swing 

 mules, as they are the only four that are together, and 

 that followed the Army of the Potomac through all its 

 campaigns. There is not a mule of the four that is 

 over fourteen and a half hands high, and not one that 

 weighs over nine hundred pounds. This team, I ought 



