- Joined
- Jul 23, 2017
- Location
- Southwest Missouri
Colonel James Pike (post war)
Colonel Pike, of Sanbornton Bridge, late Colonel of the Sixteenth New Hampshire Regiment, had a mare that had seen some service, having been through the whole war. She was raised in Western Virginia, and saw hard service in the Rebel army, belonging to Ashby's Cavalry, but was captured and taken by Colonel Brodhead, of the First Michigan Cavalry, and gallantly bore him until the fatal day at Centreville, when the Colonel fell.
The Colonel's horse was sent to his friends in New York, who presented her to Colonel Pike, and she went out with him in the Banks' expedition to New Orleans, and passed through the campaign of Louisiana, and returned with the regiment at the expiration of their service, from Port Hudson, up the Mississippi, and with the mark of many a hard struggle and service in nineteen different States was taken by Colonel Pike, who values her very highly, to his home in New Hampshire.
The Portrait Monthly Vol 1
(I tried very hard to find a photo of this mare with no luck - nice ending to one heck of a tour of duty - served on both sides, both cavalry and infantry, and in both the eastern and western theatre)