...t. A writer in Forter's Spirit thus describes the horse which some gentlemen in Cincinnati bought in St. Louis and presented to Gen. McClellan, when he took charge of the Federal army in Western Virginia : Dan Webster, or "Handsome Dan," the familiar sobriquet by which he was known to the men, women, and children throughout the city, is a gelding of a beautifully dappled mahogany-bay color, wit...