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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ys must be disbursed by the regularly appointed agents of the Government. The commission are to meet at St. Louis, and enter upon their duties as soon as practicable. Samuel T. Glover, Esq., of St. Louis, is to act as counsel for the Government. Gen. M'Clellan's war horse. 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, with three white feet and a star, very heavy flowing black mane and tall, the latter a regular "spout." He is 16 hands high, and weighs, in ordinary flesh, 1,260 pounds. He was aired by Gen. Jackson, dam of Sir Archy and Messenger blood. He has a fine, bony, and intelligent head, delicately tapered ear, and a proud