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Of the years of the war I recall only this incident, which is as vivid as yesterday's events Some soldiers (i do not know whether Yankee or Confederate) stopped one day at our home. I was afraid to touch or get near them. I do not know how long they stayed or what they did; except that they took my father's only horse (he had one horse and one mule) which they saw ploughing in a nearby field. He was a nice looking bay horse. They commandeered or captured this horse, to our dismay I suppose the feelings aroused I was too young and too frightened to apprehend. No doubt I thought we were lucky to escape alive from their visit. But they didn't keep this horse. On the hard road he manifested a limp something was wrong with his feet or a leg so he couldn't travel well, although he could pull a plow. It was doubtless due to this defect that we had him at all; for I imagine most able bodied horses and 'mules had been drafted for the Confederate service.
So the horse was turned loose by the soldiers before they carried him far, and we were rejoiced to see our dear old horse coming home again.
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Of the years of the war I recall only this incident, which is as vivid as yesterday's events Some soldiers (i do not know whether Yankee or Confederate) stopped one day at our home. I was afraid to touch or get near them. I do not know how long they stayed or what they did; except that they took my father's only horse (he had one horse and one mule) which they saw ploughing in a nearby field. He was a nice looking bay horse. They commandeered or captured this horse, to our dismay I suppose the feelings aroused I was too young and too frightened to apprehend. No doubt I thought we were lucky to escape alive from their visit. But they didn't keep this horse. On the hard road he manifested a limp something was wrong with his feet or a leg so he couldn't travel well, although he could pull a plow. It was doubtless due to this defect that we had him at all; for I imagine most able bodied horses and 'mules had been drafted for the Confederate service.
So the horse was turned loose by the soldiers before they carried him far, and we were rejoiced to see our dear old horse coming home again.
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