Aug 23, 2011 · Interesting military tradition for mules: New arrivals had their tails shaved hence shavetails Then as they learned new skills and their tail grew a bell was cut into the tail to show the …

Mar 21, 2012 · Union soldiers picked up a lovely girl who was smuggling quinine through the Federal lines to Confederates in Virginia, carrying more than one hundred ounces of the precious medicine …

Nov 20, 2012 · On this day, May 12, 150 years ago one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War occurred. At 4:35 am this morning the II Corps of the Army of the Potomac under Maj. Gen. Winfield …

Jan 29, 2019 · The approximate six pound "Mule Ear" carbine was a single shot .54 caliber breech loading side hammered percussion firing carbine. It was loaded from the top of the breech which was …

Nov 12, 2016 · Breeding For A Mule? — Mules and More Magazine by Lisa Fergason, Equines by Design, Sanger, Texas Reprinted from the January 1997 issue of Mules and More Do you want to …

Apr 30, 2012 · I don't believe the mountain howitzer (much lighter tube and various much lighter carriages or pack mule mounted) was used frequently as actual horse artillery, but could be wrong.

59. brevet horse: mule 60. brung: Brought 61. bub: a fellow or guy. 62. bub and sis: Nickname for brother and sister, especially given to children 63. buck and ball: A close range musket load having 3 …

Nov 20, 2012 · Thought this was an excellent account of Col. Emory Upton's charge on the Mule Shoe salient at Spotsylvania, May 10, 1864. From the diary of Clinton...

Apr 18, 2019 · After the War ended, GG Grandpa sold his teams and wagons to the Army, he sold his clothes and replaced them with raged clothing and a worn out mule. He sowed the money into his …

Apr 10, 2012 · The handler pointed the mule at the empty prairie and then the handler lit the fuse to the loaded Mountain Howitzer on the back of the mule. The mule had never heard the sound of a …