Show j c i FA JI OJ WAR VA R H HORSES 0 t L The stories or at General tie de to his favorite charger remind one of mart a 11 great s between whom and tb horse that has carried him through h long campaigns there ha has been an affection almost human In Its In Intensity Who Vho does nt recall Lord Robert gal gallant gallant lant charger little gra gray Arab which tarried its medals and Its m master astEr proudly In time the diamond jubilee I procession had belonged In his early years ears to an Indian chief an and when Lord Roberts Roberta bought him hI he discovered that the ArAbs tall tAil had been broken In two places to produce a graceful caudal curve When he Queen Victoria awarded medals to her soldiers r who had fou fought ht In the Afghan campaign and In thE ex expedition to was great greatly J ly but not unreservedly Lord Roberts hung around his neck the medal with four clasps and the tho star ot of bronze and later the queen presented him with the jubilee medal At the adv advanced ced age of 21 the game was only onh 14 hands high was as playful as an any kitten He cur sur hoed to see his birthday anU lIes burled buried hear the Royal Roal hospital Dublin In the rose garden i Copenhagen famous chest chestnut nut was on only i 2 Inches higher titan little lIe carried his great master maIter through the peninsular war antI and bore him eighteen hours on the day or of Waterloo When hen his fIghting days were over the little Danish horse borso was sent to where b be was tenderly cared for His last da days s were somewhat embittered It Is true b by the misguided worship ot of thousands ot of his admirers who went to visit himin fact thE nuisance became so great that the duke nas as compelled to put limit him In a cage When at last he succumbed ed to old age he be wu was aCcorded an impressive funeral and a was erected to commemorate orate his virtues and his loyal loal service An honored old age ge was as that I ot of the white charger Marengo which car carried nod ried Napoleon on the field ot of Waterloo After his masters flight Marengo was found by an English officer wandering disconsolately over the battlefield and he was s cent l to England Englan where he be spent i many happy happ years ears in pastures and tended grooms H He cur sur Napoleon nine years ears and when old age and pneumonia combined to end hIs er his skeleton was sent for pres preservation creation In the Royal United Service In InstitUtion In Whitehall There has seldom if ever been a braver and more loyal war horse than Traveler who carried his master General Genral Lee through sCores of battles and came through tl them m an all without a scratch It ItIs ItIs Is raid that he whinnied pitifully when he hc followed the generals coffin to the grave and It was as not long after that while grazing a nail became embedded In his foot and h he died of lockjaw Co Copen Copenhagen n hagen bore Stonewall wall Jackson through h I tn ten battles before bror the fatal bud bul lt let struck his hie rider no Ho survived through an nd tended ae until dad and ht he mv mae be seen stuffed and cleverly mo ma hi II a ginee I ease In hI the library of the soldiers home homel V General l Washington Washing ba tJan nany horses hones who rendered him devoted ad whom he regarded d with bt bet the mot prized of them aU WAS the brown charger lie hp bestrode at the cler r or of Lord Thing with heavy mourning robes S and led b by a groom he be followed the coffin ot of h his deed brien and master to his last rE resting place G Gera Gee era eral I famous bl K war horse long survived aU alL the hue of t war and died loved and lit Ia iSa HIs bod body was Is to 0 be seen Been In th the museum museum on Governors bland in New York ba baIt bay It seems to inert hM the f t of moet moat ot of those famous horses to survive their masters Such however was not th lot lotof lotof of Nellie Neme Gray th handsOmest charger In all ihl the confederate ann army eMie eHM with General Fitzhugh Lee on liar her back seem seemed seemed ed to bear a charmed life eo o may were ere the dangers shE escaped d until at last s sh e ef f tell In the very thickest of the tight fight at the battle of the most loved loed of aU all General Grants Graits ho horses 8 was more mor fortunate fortunat thAn Nellie for lie e 6 ear hed an all the horrors o of the civil war and AM liS as sincerely lamented as he had bad lived respected |