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  • Civil War Horse Luck January 30, 2018

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Civil War Horse Luck

    One of the grimmest statistics of the American Civil War is Nathan Bedford Forrest’s assertion that he had twenty-nine horses shot from under him: J. O. Shelby had a more modest twenty-four horses on his tally sheet. With great respect to these two Confederate warriors, there is always the fear that their claims are exaggerated: […]