Giesboro.
Thirty-two immense stables, besides hospitals and other buildings, provided shelter for six thousand horses at the big cavalry depot, District of Columbia, but most of the stock was kept in open sheds or in corrals.
The stockyards alone covered forty-five acres. The stables were large, well-lighted buildings with thousands of scrupulously clean stalls.
The horses were divided into serviceable and unserviceable classes.
About sixty per cent. of the horses received from the field for recuperation were returned to active service.
Five thousand men were employed in August, 1863, to rush this cavalry depot to completion.
Its maintenance was one of the costly items which aggregated an expenditure by the
Union Government of $1,000,000 a day during the entire period of the war — an expenditure running even as high as $4,000,000 a day.
 | |
Shelter for six thousand horses at Giesboro |
|  | |
The barracks at Giesboro |
|
