GDG- A horse is a horse, or course...

[Gitt, Doug]

Even though I am not a horse person, that makes sense.  By elimination, it would seem that most of the horses would have been geldings; mares kept back for breeding and stallions being "all show".  Should we check the sex of the horses on the monuments? :-)

Doug


From: Richard M Kadas <rkadas at sbcglobal.net>

One must suspect that most didn't want stallions who become virtually unmanagable in the presence of a mare in heat.
  Dick

"Gitt, Doug" <dgitt at state.pa.us> wrote:
  Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:


A weird question popped into my mind this morning. For their horses, did the ACW armies prefer mares, stallions, geldings or all of the above? I suspect the horse breeders may have kept most mares for breeding. Did they prefer geldings over stallions? 

Doug