Famous Horses of the American Civil War And the Senior Officers Who Rode Them
Famous Horses of the American Civil War And the Senior Officers Who Rode Them
Ajax
Robert E. Lee (secondary)
Aldebaron
Philip Sheridan (first horse)
Almond Eye
Benjamin F. Butler
Baldy (also Old Baldy)
George G. Meade (favorite horse, wounded at First Bull Run and at Battle of Antietam)
Bayard
Philip Kearny (secondary; Kearny was killed at Chantilly while riding this horse)
Bill
Henry J. Hunt
Billy
George H. Thomas (named for William T. Sherman)
Blackie
George G. Meade (secondary)
Brown Roan
Robert E. Lee (secondary)
Bucephalus
Sterling Price
Burns (AKA Black Burns)
George B. McClellan (secondary)
Captain
Wade Hampton
Charlemagne
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Cincinnati
Ulysses S. Grant (favorite horse, acquired in 1864)
Comanche-Sole survivor of Battle at Little Big Horn
General George Custer*
Cornwall
John Sedgwick (secondary)
Daniel Webster
George B. McClellan
Decatur
Philip Kearny (secondary; horse shot through the neck at Fair Oaks)
Dixie
Edward Porter Alexander
Dolly
Patrick Cleburne (horse killed at Battle of Perryville)
Don Juan
William T. Sherman (secondary)
Fancy (Little Sorrel)*
Stonewall Jackson
Fanny
John F. Reynolds (favorite)
Faugh-a-Ballagh
John Gibbon
Fire-Eater
Patrick Kelly
Firefly
Albert Sidney Johnston
Fleeter
Robert E. Rodes
Fleeter
Fleetfoot
Belle Boyd
Fox
Walter H. Taylor
Gertie
George G. Meade (secondary)
Grand Old Canister
Daniel Sickles (secondary)
Grape
Daniel Sickles (secondary)
Grey Eagle
John Buford
Handsome Joe
John Sedgwick (secondary)
Harry
George Armstrong Custer (secondary)
Hero
James Longstreet
Highfly
J.E.B. Stuart (secondary)
Highlander
Nathan Bedford Forrest (secondary)
Jack
Ulysses S. Grant (secondary)
Jeff Davis
John Bell Hood
Jinny
Ulysses S. Grant (secondary)
Kangaroo
Isaac R. Trimble
Kentuck
Ulysses S. Grant (secondary)
King Philip
George B. McClellan (favorite)
Lancer
Nathan Bedford Forrest (favorite)
Lexington
George Armstrong Custer (favorite)
Little Sorrel (became know as Fancy)(Old Sorrel proved unreliable in battle)*
Stonewall Jackson (favorite)
Lookout
Stonewall Jackson
Lucy Long
Joseph Hooker (named after the Battle of Lookout Mountain)
Methuselah (Traveller)*
Robert E. Lee
Milroy
Ulysses S. Grant (first horse on re-entering the Army in 1861)
Moscow
John B. Gordon (horse captured from General Robert Milroy at Second Winchester)
My Maryland
Philip Kearny (favorite, but avoided riding due to his conspicuous white color)
Nellie Gray
J.E.B. Stuart (secondary)
Old Bill
Fitzhugh Lee (horse killed at Battle of Opequon)
Old Bob
George G. Meade (secondary)
Old Jim
Ambrose Burnside
Old Spot
Strong Vincent
Pocohontas
Judson Kilpatrick
Pretty
George H. Steuart
Prince
David McM. Gregg
Plug Ugly
John F. Reynolds (secondary)
Rambler
Alpheus S. Williams
Red Eye
John Sedgwick (favorite)
Richmond
Richard B. Garnett
Rienzi (later Winchester)
Robert E. Lee
Rifle
Philip Sheridan (renamed after Sheridan's famous ride at the Battle of Winchester)
Roanoke
Richard S. Ewell
Roderick
George Armstrong Custer (secondary)
Rondy
Nathan Bedford Forrest (secondary)
Sam
Ulysses S. Grant (first horse in battle)
Slicky
William T. Sherman (secondary)
Tammany
Alfred Pleasonton
Traveller
Virginia
Robert E. Lee (favorite - see Traveller (horse)
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