Tuesday, November 12, 2013

November 13, 1863---Confederate horses are starving



NOVEMBER 13, 1863:        

On this day, a Friday, Robert E. Lee wires Jefferson Davis imploring him to send horse fodder to the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee’s horses have been subsisting on only three pounds of corn a day for the last week. A war horse requires about 26 pounds of mixed feed per day. 


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