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The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
d, for the saddle, harness, draft, and particularly for military operations. Our cavalry horses are superior to any others on this continent, only so far as they have a greater or smaller infusion of good blood. It is greatly to be regretted, even in a national point of view, that for the last twenty years we have paid so little attention to the breeding of thoroughbred stock, and let slip the golden opportunity of filling our country with the sons and daughters of such imported horses as Margrave and Priam, Franby and Chateau Margaud, Zingance and Emancipation, which, judiciously crossed on our own blood stock, would now furnish our army with superior cavalry horses in great abundance, and thus enable us to protect our country most successfully and amply from all Yankee foraging and raids. During the European wars for fifteen or twenty years, previous to the battle of Waterloo, the English cavalry had proven itself so vastly superior to all Continental cavalry, on all occasions