| A few Civil War horses and their riders: | | | | names were Lexington and Sam. Sherman rode |
| Traveller and Robert E. Lee | | | | Lexington at Atlanta and in the Grand Review in |
| Confederate General Robert E. Lee came to | | | | Washington at the close of the war. Sam was injured |
| Richmond, Virginia in the spring of 1861. During this visit, | | | | several times during the Civil War. At Shiloh, three of |
| Lee was given a bay stallion named Richmond. | | | | Sherman's horses were killed during the battle. Two of |
| Richmond was a nervous horse, and proved | | | | these three horses died as an orderly held their reigns. |
| unsatisfactory. When Richmond was near strange | | | | Cincinnati and Ulysses S. Grant |
| horses, he would tend to squeal. This was not a good | | | | As a young man, Ulysses S. Grant developed a love |
| thing for a Civil War horse to do. Lee took Richmond | | | | of horses when he worked at his father's farm. Grant |
| to West Virginia and purchased another horse called | | | | became a skilled equestrian. While a cadet at West |
| The Roan or Brown-Roan. Unfortunately, The Roan | | | | Point, Grant was an exceptional equestrian and he did |
| began to go blind during the Seven Days' Battle in June | | | | not stand out as having special talents in anything else |
| and July of 1862. The horse Richmond died after | | | | while at West Point. Grant wanted a commission in the |
| Malvern Hill. After Second Bull Run, cavalryman Jeb | | | | cavalry when he finished at West Point. Instead, he |
| Stuart got Lee a mare named Lucy Long. Also around | | | | wound up in the infantry because the cavalry had no |
| this time, Lee received a sorrel horse named Ajax. | | | | vacancies. The infantry assignment must have been a |
| When Lee rode to Appomattox Court House to | | | | disappointment for the horse-loving equestrian Ulysses |
| surrender on April 9, 1865, he was riding his favorite | | | | S. Grant. |
| and most known horse. This gray colored horse was | | | | Grant's favorite horse during the Civil War was |
| Traveller. After the Civil War, when Robert E. Lee was | | | | Cincinnati. An admirer gave Cincinnati to Grant after |
| president at Washington University (later renamed to | | | | the Battle of Chattanooga. Cincinnati was seldom |
| Washington and Lee University), Lee's favorite old | | | | ridden by anyone other than Grant, one notable |
| war-horse Traveller was still with him. When Lee died, | | | | exception being President Abraham Lincoln when |
| the horse Traveller walked behind Lee's hearse in the | | | | Lincoln last visited City Point, Virginia. Other horses |
| funeral procession. Traveller walked with his head | | | | Grant had in the Civil War were Jack, Fox, and |
| bowed and in a slow gait. Traveller is buried outside of | | | | Kangaroo. Kangaroo was left on the Shiloh battlefield |
| the Lee Chapel on the campus of Washington and | | | | by the Confederates. This horse was described as |
| Lee University. Robert E. Lee is interred in a crypt | | | | ugly and raw-boned. Grant however, having an eye |
| beneath the Lee Chapel. | | | | for horses, knew that Kangaroo was a thoroughbred. |
| Lexington, Sam, and William Tecumseh Sherman | | | | After becoming a Yankee horse, Kangaroo got rest |
| William Tecumseh Sherman had two horses that | | | | and care and became a fine horse. |
| were his favorites during the Civil War. These horse's | | | | |