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A pert young mule is a Thing of Beauty
A decade threads from our "Four-footed Friends" forum:
Dumb Mules! or are they????? | Four Footed Friends
Reading online my sought after Memoir by Horace Porter, I read this passage about opening the Cracker Line around Chattanooga - which goes to show the serendipitous nature of battle........ha ha ha As soon as the enemy recovered from his surprise, he woke up to the importance of the...
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Monument to horses and mules killed in war | Four Footed Friends
This equestrian statue stands in a small courtyard adjacent to the United States Cavalry Museum at Fort Riley, Kansas. This three-quarter sized statue is dedicated to the million and a half horses and mules that perished or were used during the Civil War. It was dedicated in the summer of 1997...
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Civil War Mules | Four Footed Friends
by Jonathan R. Allen A fine example of mule-flesh. Mules in the Civil War provided a lot of brute muscle to get the tough, backbreaking work done for both the North and the South. Their specialty was pulling wagons. It’s worth noting that a mule is a cross between a male donkey and a...
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Comic Relief In The Thick Of Battle, Thanks To A Mule | Four Footed Friends
The long-suffering yet plucky mules who supported the war effort for both sides sometimes contributed a bit of levity—even while bullets flew around them. This anecdote was related by Capt. Theodore Hanscom of the 6th New Hampshire Regiment: "The boys were quick to see anything funny, at any...
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Louisa May Alcott's Army Mules Were People, Too | Four Footed Friends
This fellow, one of the leaders in a 6 mule team harness sports the Federal flag- in Richmond, with Libby tobacco warehouse prison as backdrop. Best, ever, hand's down delightful passage on animal behavior. Pre- cute kitten memes and video forwards there were books- chunks of paper, packed...
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Lize of the 1st Iowa Infantry - and Guthrie's mule | Four Footed Friends
Eugene Fitch Ware, 1st Iowa Infantry Photo courtesy Kansas Historical Society There had been a lot of vagrant, tramp dogs visiting the camp furtively; they were a bad-looking lot. The ugliest was a mudcolored mongrel, whom somebody named "Lize"; she was so ugly that she was a curiosity. She...
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Mule Train Charge/ Gettysburg Day 1 | Four Footed Friends
A painting by Don Stivers: Thought this appropriate for the forum. I attached the link to a description of the mule teams delivery of much needed ammunition on Day 1.Its a great read.it also has a map of the path they took. What makes this delivery something special is that it was done...
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A Broken-down Mule, 1864, by Edwin Forbes
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Mules- shavetails ,belled tails and bell sharps | Four Footed Friends
Interesting military tradition for mules: New arrivals had their tails shaved hence shavetails Then as they learned new skills and their tail grew a bell was cut into the tail to show the mastered skill. First bell was added when the animal could pack Second bell was added when the animal could...
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Guthrie and the Mule: 1st Iowa, 1861 | Four Footed Friends
From The Lyon campaign in Missouri. Being a history of the First Iowa infantry and of the causes which led up to its organization, and how it earned the thanks of Congress, which it got. by Eugene F. Ware, 1907: On August First we rose in ranks at call of bugle. We had coffee, beef, and a...
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Good Source Regarding Mules, Horses, Cattle | Four Footed Friends
Chapter 6, Wagon Trains, and Chapter 7, Pack Trains, Cattle Herds, and Foot Power of Hess's, Civil War Logistics are full of the hard to find data about these subjects.
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Mules (and Cats) for Another War | Four Footed Friends
Attached is a page from the Evansville Courier and Press, July 11, 1898. The main article is about the 13,000 to 14,000 mules purchased by the government for use in the Spanish American War. But, it contains some interesting muleish Civil War anecdotes. Note also the neighboring article...
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Caroline, the Tobacco Mule | Four Footed Friends
[Mitchell Capital (S.D.) August 23, 1895]
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GEORGIA MULES | Four Footed Friends
Wade Peebles to Georgia Folk and Farm Life · May 27, 2016 · GEORGIA MULES.........................Georgia mules were considered to be good mules, but particularly stubborn. The mule has been around a couple of thousand years, since Europeans first crossed the horse and the donkey. Mules are a...
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The Saga of Old Whitey, Fighting Mule of the 12th Corps | Four Footed Friends
"Cracker30" by mustangcamp is licensed under CC BY 2.0 [https://ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/0419ccb8-cc30-4bd5-9c2c-7e963e0f7836] As told by Gen. Thomas L. Casey, U. S. Engineers General Bartlett’s story in the Globe Democrat of the war dog Jack recalls to my mind the romance of “Old...
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Shoeing he Refractory Mule
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Shoeing a Mule could be a Hazardous Occupation | Four Footed Friends
"Shoeing a Refractory Mule" “ I was strolling along the camp to-day in search of adventure, when I was attracted by a little knot of soldiers at a short distance, and a horse on the ground as though kicking for its life. The horse turned out to be a mule undergoing the process of shoeing. It...
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The Valverde "Mule Bomb" | Four Footed Friends
According to an article by Dr. Conrad Crane of the U.S. Army Military History Institute, on February 20, 1862, Federal Capt. James “Paddy” Graydon had the bright idea of loading mules with howitzer shells, lighting the fuze, and urging the animals to walk into the nearby Confederate camp. Maybe...
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"A Very Fortunate Mule" | Four Footed Friends
The story of Mexique, the old mule who was "retired from active service, on full pay and allowances," by order of the Secretary of War, on the advice of Gen. Sherman himself, appeared in Harper's Young People, vol. 5, May 27, 1884. A Very Fortunate Mule, by Gustave Kobbe THERE appeared not...
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"The Last War Mule" | Four Footed Friends
There are not nearly as many claimants for this coveted title as for "Last War Horse." Fewer mule owners kept track of their plebian animals' history than of their more aristocratic fellow-equidae ... and rarely had they been ridden into battle by famous generals or other wartime heroes. But...
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The Name of the Mule, and His Pedigree | Four Footed Friends
from "Reminiscences of an Army Mule," (1886) by John McElroy (author of Si Klegg, Andersonville, et, etc) You do not know Me. Permit Me to introduce Myself: I am a Mule. My proper name is doubtless desired, but how can I give it? I have had more different names than would make several pages of...
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“Poor Caroline” the Old Army Mule | Four Footed Friends
[from the G.A.R. weekly, The National Tribune, December 23, 1886] At a Grand Army Campfire at Savannah, Tenn., some time ago, one of the most honored guests was “Caroline,” an old U. S. Army mule. She was decked with flags, one of which bore the inscription “Here’s Yer Mule,” and was ridden at...
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