{"id":819,"date":"2011-07-06T06:05:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T06:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2011-07-06T06:05:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T06:05:42","slug":"a-horse-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"A Horse Story."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The army correspondent of the Herald writes an account of the famous horse raid within the lines and without riders. He says:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Near Bermuda Hundred there is a large corral, where all the disabled and worn out horses-brought here by Gen. Sheridan after his famous raid-are confined. The poor beasts have apparently but little of their original vigor left.That was what we thought a week or two since. Now we have changed our opinion. During the heavy firing on our right a short time since, these wornout equine warriors pricked up their ears straightened their sore and stiff limbs, tossed their manes, formed into squadrons, and with a loud snort charged on a number of inoffensive mules. Two mules were instantly killed and the others fled in the wildest disorder. The horses again formed to the music of Gillmore&#8217;s artillery, and charged on a high rail fence, which they at once broke down. They did not desist from their warlike demonstrations until the artillery ceased firing.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The army correspondent of the Herald writes an account of the famous horse raid within the lines and without riders. He says: \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Near Bermuda Hundred there is a large corral, where all the disabled and worn out horses-brought here by Gen. Sheridan after his famous raid-are confined. The poor beasts have apparently but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}