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Certificate for Capt. William A. Locke that he completed the course "Horse" January 21, 1946 to May 28, 1946, The Cavalry School, Fort Riley, KS

Sam Cox wrote:Also Robert Borg is worth a mention (Alamo Scout,Olympian,CO of the last US Horse Troop).

Yes, a truly remarkable man:

http://www.oxfordleader.com/Obituary-20 ... _Borg.html

http://www.usdf.org/halloffame/inductee ... s/borg.asp

1874 Annual Report of the Secretary of War:

“...in 1875 we find him (Capt. Reuben F. Bernard) going to San Francisco to receive instruction in the “Goodenough” manner of horseshoeing, which he was ordered to adopt. “It is all damned nonsense," he told his troop farrier, on his return,”but we will have to use the shoes somehow.” The “Good...

Info and image from the 1928 Year Book of the United States Polo Association showing how widespread polo had become in the US Army:

I think this is the unit:

1st Battalion Militia Cavalry
Organized at Harrisburg, Pa., July 13, 1863. Attached to Dept. of the Susquehanna. Mustered out August 21, 1863

"I was secretary of the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill then, and I got word through the back door (that the commandant of the Ground General School (successor to the Cavalry School) had literally dumped lots of manuscripts, studies, and books into the river). I got permission from the comm...

Sam Cox wrote:

This was the last cavalry parade held in Jct. City, KS (next door to Ft. Riley) on Veterans Day 1946.

This recruitment poster for emergency cavalry during the Confederate invasion of PA in 1863 is on display at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA.

Couvi wrote:

Pat Holscher wrote:7th Rgt Departing.

Great shots of those Escort Wagons. What is laying on the ground next to the track in photograph 3901-13?

There are half a dozen railroad lanterns grouped at the top. The two poles look like some kind of scraper.

Yesterday I visited Kane, PA in north central Pennsylvania. It is an isolated community in oil country south of Bradford. Kane was founded by General Thomas Kane at the summit of the railroad to Erie. Because of its isolation and elevation it has gotten a reputation as "the icebox of PA." ...

Philip S wrote:Do you have a date for the photograph?

It is probable that this was when the 115th Cavalry was training at Ft. Lewis, WA in 1941:

https://www.facebook.com/UniversityofWy ... 9833059016

Do you have a date for the photograph?

This is from a pioneering series of motion photography done to show whether horse’s are airborne at a trot or gallop. It had been traditional for artists to depict all four feet of race horses off the ground (called by critics “rocky horses”). Muybridge’s photographs showed otherwise. http://prints....

The Gettysburg Visitor's Center has in storage what it describes as a "Model A 1859 McClellan Saddle."
Is this a special variant?
http://www.eveningsun.com/gettysburg150 ... k-at-civil

I think the saddle is probably a Smith Worthington model which was popular with mounted police and military units. It is basically a modified McClellan with flaps.

A picture:
http://www.horsegroomingsupplies.com/ho ... 49607.html

The initials came from Grant being mistakenly enrolled at West Point as "Ulysses Simpson Grant." He liked the initials and, I suspect, it was easier to keep the mistaken name than have the army change their records.

http://presidentialham.com/u-s-presiden ... -with-ham/

General Grant's saddle box is on display at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA.

New York Post editorial:

http://nypost.com/2014/01/13/killing-th ... hoa-there/

“Waltham manufactured its watches on the ‘interchangeable system.’ Aaron L. Dennison (1812-1895) . ‘the father of American Watchmaking’ who promoted the company and designed some of its earliest machinery, was inspired by a visit to the United States Armory at Springfield, Massachusetts. However, th...