"General Lee’s Horses" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Feb 2020 9:58 p.m. PST |
"Traveller was used by General Robert E. Lee thoughout most of the Civil War. The iron gray horse was born in 1857 in Greenbrier County, which is now in West Virginia. He was first called Jeff Davis by Andrew Johnston, who raised him. He was renamed Greenbrier by his next owner, Captain Joseph M. Broun. Lee bought the horse from Capt. Broun for $200 USD during his late 1861 stay in South Carolina. Lee renamed his new mount Traveller. Traveller, who weighed about eleven hundred pounds and stood nearly sixteen hands high, served his master well. He outlived General Lee, and upon his death he was buried next to the Lee Chapel. In 1907 his remains were disinterred and displayed at the Chapel for a period of time before reburied on the front campus outside the Lee Chapel…"
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 ochoin  | 22 Feb 2020 11:36 p.m. PST |
Does General James Longstreet get a mention? |
| Tango01 | 23 Feb 2020 3:02 p.m. PST |
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