Lancaster County PA Archives News.....A Famous War Horse.  July 7, 1880
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Lancaster Daily Intelligencer. (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928 July 7, 1880
There has just died on the farm of Day Wood, Goshen, Lancaster county, a horse
brought home at the close of the war by Lieut. E. E. Wood of the 17th Pa. Cavalry.
This horse came to the regiment, then stationed with the army of the Potomac, in the
fall of 1863, and was owned and ridden by Major R. Reinhold, who rode him until he
resigned the previous summer. In the meantime he had passed through Sheridan's raid
to Richmond the Trevelyan raid and the march from City Point to the Shenandoah
Valley. He had been in the battles of the Wilderness, Yellow Tavern, Meadow Bridge,
Hanovertown, Harves Shop, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, Trevelyan Station, White
House and others not so important. Major R. Reinhold resigning in August, this horse
became the property of Capt. M. Reinhold, a cousin of the major, who rode him until
the early part of September, when the captain was killed in the saddle at a skirmish
on the Opequan river.
After the death of Capt. M. Reinhold, his brother Capt. U. Reinhold, took the horse
and rode him until the regiment was mustered out, June 16, 1865. He went through
Winchester and the Valley campaign and raids; the march from the Shenandoah valley
to the army of the Potomac before Petersburg, in February and March; the battles of
Dinwiddie's FiveForks; the pursuit of Lee, Saylor's creek, and the surrender of Lee
at Appomattox, April 9, 1865; the march to Washington, the grand review, &c.
When the regiment was mustered out a number of officers were put in the Second
Penna. cavalry. The horse then became the property of Lieut. Luckner, who rode him
until the regiment was mustered out at Harrisburg in August, 1865. He was then
bought by Lieut. E. Wood, who brought him home, where he has remained ever since.
He was a fine looking horse, jet black, magnificently developed limbs, a large, wide
chest, broad hips, a large piercing eye, and at his death not a scar or blemish on
him. What was remarkable was the fact that he was very much afraid of the reports of
firearms. He was 25 years old and but for an accident he met with, had all the
appearance of living ten years longer.

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