Trivia 4-28-16 Past Ponies

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Brown Roan, aka "the Roan"
Richmond

Although Traveller was General Lee’s favorite horse, Lee did use other horses during the course of the Civil War. When Lee purchased Traveller, his stable already contained two horses, Richmond and Brown-Roan:

Richmond, a bay stallion, was acquired by General Lee in early 1861. The General rode Richmond when he inspected the Richmond defenses. Richmond died in 1862 after the battle of Malvern Hill.
Brown-Roan was purchased by Lee in West Virginia during the first summer of the war. Also referred to as “The Roan,” the horse went blind in 1862 and had to be retired. He was left with a farmer.

Two other horses, Lucy Long and Ajax, joined Lee’s stable after he purchased Traveller:

Lucy Long, a mare, served as the primary backup horse to Traveller. Lucy Long remained with the Lee family after the war. Outliving General Lee, she died when she was thirty-three years old.
Ajax, a sorrel horse, was used infrequently because he was too large for Lee to ride comfortably. Ajax also remained with the Lees after the war. He killed himself in the mid-1860s by accidently running into an iron gate-latch prong.

http://www.stratfordhall.org/meet-the-lee-family/general-robert-e-lee-1807-1870/general-lees-horses/
 
I am going to guess you are looking for Brown Roan and Richmond, and not Ajax and Lucy Long. But now I have covered all the bases.:giggle:
Although Traveller was General Lee’s favorite horse, Lee did use other horses during the course of the Civil War. When Lee purchased Traveller, his stable already contained two horses, Richmond and Brown-Roan:
Richmond, a bay stallion, was acquired by General Lee in early 1861. The General rode Richmond when he inspected the Richmond defenses. Richmond died in 1862 after the battle of Malvern Hill.
Brown-Roan was purchased by Lee in West Virginia during the first summer of the war. Also referred to as “The Roan,” the horse went blind in 1862 and had to be retired. He was left with a farmer.
Two other horses, Lucy Long and Ajax, joined Lee’s stable after he purchased Traveller. http://www.stratfordhall.org/meet-the-lee-family/general-robert-e-lee-1807-1870/general-lees-horses/
 
Traveller was used by General Robert E. Lee throughout most of the Civil War. The iron gray horse was born in 1857 in Greenbrier County, which is now in West Virginia. He was first called Jeff Davis by Andrew Johnston, who raised him. He was renamed Greenbrier by his next owner, Captain Joseph M. Broun. Lee bought the horse from Capt. Broun for $200 during his late 1861 stay in South Carolina. Lee renamed his new mount Traveller. Traveller, who weighed about eleven hundred pounds and stood nearly sixteen hands high, served his master well. He outlived General Lee, and upon his death he was buried next to the Lee Chapel. In 1907 his remains were disinterred and displayed at the Chapel for a period of time before reburied on the front campus outside the Lee Chapel.

Source http://www.stratfordhall.org/meet-the-lee-family/general-robert-e-lee-1807-1870/general-lees-horses/


Although the most famous, Traveller was not Lee's only horse during the war:
  • Lucy Long, a mare, was the primary backup horse to Traveller. She remained with the Lee family after the war, dying considerably after Lee, when she was thirty-four years old. She was a gift from J.E.B. Stuart who purchased her from Adam Stephen Dandridge of The Bower. Notably, she was ridden by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
  • Richmond, a bay colored stallion, was acquired by General Lee in early 1861. He died in 1862 after the Battle of Malvern Hill.
  • Brown-Roan, or The Roan, was purchased by Lee in West Virginia around the time of Traveller's purchase. He went blind in 1862 and had to be retired.
  • Ajax, a sorrel horse, was too large for Lee to ride comfortably and was thus used infrequently.
James Longstreet, one of Lee's most trusted generals, was referred to by Lee as his Old War Horse, because of his reliability.

Source: Wiki
 
I feel the wording of this question can be interpreted two ways.

Permit me to clarify my answer in another post here:
If we are looking for the two previous names of the same horse Traveller, then my answer is Jeff Davis and Greenbrier.
If we are looking for the names of the two horses that preceded Traveller, then my answer is Richmond and Brown-Roan.

Although Traveller was General Lee’s favorite horse, Lee did use other horses during the course of the Civil War. When Lee purchased Traveller, his stable already contained two horses, Richmond and Brown-Roan.

Richmond, a bay stallion, was acquired by General Lee in early 1861. The General rode Richmond when he inspected the Richmond defenses. Richmond died in 1862 after the battle of Malvern Hill.
Brown-Roan was purchased by Lee in West Virginia during the first summer of the war. Also referred to as “The Roan,” the horse went blind in 1862 and had to be retired. He was left with a farmer.

Two other horses, Lucy Long and Ajax, joined Lee’s stable after he purchased Traveller:
Lucy Long, a mare, served as the primary backup horse to Traveller. Lucy Long remained with the Lee family after the war. Outliving General Lee, she died when she was thirty-three years old.
Ajax, a sorrel horse, was used infrequently because he was too large for Lee to ride comfortably. Ajax also remained with the Lees after the war. He killed himself in the mid-1860s by accidently running into an iron gate-latch prong.

http://www.stratfordhall.org/meet-the-lee-family/general-robert-e-lee-1807-1870/general-lees-horses/
 
When Lee purchased Traveller, his stable already contained two horses, Richmond and Brown-Roan:

Richmond, a bay stallion, was acquired by General Lee in early 1861. The General rode Richmond when he inspected the Richmond defenses. Richmond died in 1862 after the battle of Malvern Hill.
Brown-Roan was purchased by Lee in West Virginia during the first summer of the war. Also referred to as “The Roan,” the horse went blind in 1862 and had to be retired. He was left with a farmer.

Stratford Hall, - source
http://www.stratfordhall.org/meet-the-lee-family/general-robert-e-lee-1807-1870/general-lees-horses/
 
Lee's other horses
Although the most famous, Traveller was not Lee's only horse during the war:

  • Lucy Long, a mare, was the primary backup horse to Traveller. She remained with the Lee family after the war, dying considerably after Lee, when she was thirty-four years old. She was a gift from J.E.B. Stuart who purchased her from Adam Stephen Dandridge of The Bower. Notably, she was ridden by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
  • Richmond, a bay colored stallion, was acquired by General Lee in early 1861. He died in 1862 after the Battle of Malvern Hill.
  • Brown-Roan, or The Roan, was purchased by Lee in West Virginia around the time of Traveller's purchase. He went blind in 1862 and had to be retired.
  • Ajax, a sorrel horse, was too large for Lee to ride comfortably and was thus used infrequently.
James Longstreet, one of Lee's most trusted generals, was referred to by Lee as his Old War Horse, because of his reliability. After the Civil War, many Southerners were angered by Longstreet's defection to the Republican Party and blamed him for their defeat in the Civil War. However, Lee supported reconciliation and was also actually pleased with how Longstreet had fought in the War. (Longstreet was one of his top subordinates.) This nickname was Lee's symbol of trust.

Edit - The question concluded with the words "before Traveller." Lucy Long and Ajax are not correct answers because Lee acquired those horses after he already owned Traveller.

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They were Richmond and Brown-Roan.

Richmond was acquired in early 1861. He died in 1862 after the Battle of Malvern Hill.

Brown-Roan was bought by Lee in the first summer of the war. He referred to the horse as "The Roan". The horse went blind in 1862 and had to be retired.

Love to read about the horses but these two had sad stories at the end. They were fine horses.
 
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