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Despite being a New Englander, Collins was breeding horses for the Southern market: His advertisement states "these horses [have frequently been] purchased by Southern gentlemen, and taken South, and kept expressly for the purpose of improving their breed of horses." The mount of Confederate Major John W. Woodfin of the 2nd Regiment of the North Carolina Cavalry, this horse's name is "Prince Hal" - which I take to be a pretty good indication that this horse came of the Tom Hal bloodline. Yellow color highlights the tremendous debt these horses (and most American saddle horses of whatever breed) owe to the Godolphin horse, whose blood comes not only through Janus but *Silvereye, Jolly Roger, *Morton's Traveller and other early Thoroughbred imports. On a single day of combat Union cavalry general Philip Sheridan had three horses shot from under him, and records confirm that during 1862 and 1863, the Union army consumed horses at a rate of 500 per day. [Extracted from the article] |
