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Location: 205 HENRY AVENUE

City: FORT RILEY

State: Kansas

Zip Code: 66442

Type of Memorial: Statues War or Military Related

Year Dedicated: 1996

Access: Military Base

Wars Commemorated: CIVIL WAR

Photograph By: MARK HILTON


THERE WERE MORE HORSE AND MULE CASUALTIES DURING THE CIVIL WAR THEN CASUALTIES OF MEN. AS WITH SOLDIERS, MORE OF THE EQUINES PERISHED FROM DISEASE OR EXHAUSTION THAN FROM BEING HIT BY BULLETS. MANY DIED OF GLANDERS, WHICH IS A HIGHLY INFECTIOUS DISEASE THAT AFFECTS A HORSE’S NASAL PASSAGES, RESPIRATION AND SKIN. WITH THAT SAID, HORSES WITHSTOOD ENEMY FIRE AS IT WAS HARD TO BRING DOWN A HUGE HORSE WITH A MINI BALL. SOME HAVE ESTIMATED THAT THE AVERAGE HORSE WAS WOUNDED FIVE TIMES.
SEE ALSO-IN MEMORY OF CIVIL WAR HORSES AND MULES MEMORIAL DEDICATION STONE


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