CHAPTER XI.

THE HORSES OF LEE'S ARMY.

Their Number--Losses--Rover's Tricks--A Mighty Jaw--Her Capture--Horses in Battle--Friendship Between Horse and Rider--Wagon Horses--Artillery Horses--Cavalry Horses--Men Sleep on Their Horses--Horses for Breastwork--Seventy-five Thousand Black Beauties--Monument for Lee's Horses--A Pathetic Poem.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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LUTHER W. HOPKINS, Frontispiece

GEN. JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, 8

JEFFERSON C. DAVIS, 16

GEN. THOMAS JONATHAN JACKSON (called "Stonewall Jackson"), 32

ROBERT HOWARD HOPKINS, 48

THE LAST MEETING OF LEE AND JACKSON AT CHANCELLORSVILLE, 80

GEN. ROBERT E. LEE, 112

MRS. R.E. LEE, 128

GEN. FITZHUGH LEE, 144

A BATTLE-SCARRED CONFEDERATE BANNER, 161

GEN. A.P. HILL, 176

ONE OF STONEWALL JACKSON'S MILEPOSTS, 192

BISHOP ALPHEUS W. WILSON, 208

From Bull Run to Appomattox

A BOY'S VIEW