1. War Horse Joey (november 2014)river Oak Saddlery Saddle
2. War Horse Joey (november 2014)river Oak Saddlery Company
3. War Horse Joey (november 2014)river Oak Saddlery Club
4. War Horse Joey (november 2014)river Oak Saddlery Tack

River Oak Saddlery Sims 3 War Horse - Joey This is Joey the horse from the film war horse he is Novembers special horse i hope you all love him. Wednesday, 12 November 2014 Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer: At War and Peace, Bristol Festival of Ideas, November 11, 2014 Here's a short review I wrote for the local rag about the above lecture at Bristol University.

Assistant to trainer November 2012 to April 2014 Wilmington. 12 Cavalry Manual on the Training of HORSE and RIDER. War Horse Movie. Traveller (1857–1871) was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's most famous horse during the American Civil War.He was a grey American Saddlebred of 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm), notable for speed, strength and courage in combat.

Traveller (1857–1871) was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's most famous horse during the American Civil War. He was a greyAmerican Saddlebred of 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm), notable for speed, strength and courage in combat. Lee acquired him in February 1862, and rode him in many battles. Traveller outlived Lee by only a few months, and had to be shot when he contracted untreatable tetanus.

Birth and war service[edit]

Traveller, sired by notable racehorse Grey Eagle and originally named Jeff Davis,^[1] was born to Flora in 1857 near the Blue Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia) and was first owned and raised by James W. Johnston. An American Saddlebred, he was of Grey Eagle stock;^[2] as a colt, he took the first prize at the Lewisburg, Virginia fairs in 1859 and 1860. As an adult he was a sturdy horse, 16 hands (64 inches, 163 cm) high and 1,100 pounds (500 kg), iron gray in color with black point coloration, a long mane and a flowing tail. He was next owned by Captain Joseph M. Broun and renamed Greenbrier.^[1]

In the spring of 1861, a year before achieving fame as a Confederate general, Robert E. Lee was commanding a small force in western Virginia. The quartermaster of the 3rd Regiment, Wise Legion,^[3][4]Captain Joseph M. Broun, was directed to 'purchase a good serviceable horse of the best Greenbrier stock for our use during the war.' Broun purchased the horse for $175 (approximately $4,545 in 2008)^[5] from Andrew Johnston's son, Captain James W. Johnston, and named him Greenbrier. Major Thomas L. Broun, Joseph's brother recalled that Greenbrier:

... was greatly admired in camp for his rapid, springy walk, his high spirit, bold carriage, and muscular strength. He needed neither whip nor spur, and would walk his five or six miles an hour over the rough mountain roads of Western Virginia with his rider sitting firmly in the saddle and holding him in check by a tight rein, such vim and eagerness did he manifest to go right ahead so soon as he was mounted.

General Lee took a great fancy to the horse. He called him his 'colt', and predicted to Broun that he would use it before the war was over. After Lee was transferred to South Carolina, Joseph Broun sold the horse to him for $200 in February 1862. Lee named the horse 'Traveller'.

Lee described his horse in a letter in response to his wife's cousin, Markie Williams, who wished to paint a portrait of Traveller:

If I was an artist like you, I would draw a true picture of Traveller; representing his fine proportions, muscular figure, deep chest, short back, strong haunches, flat legs, small head, broad forehead, delicate ears, quick eye, small feet, and black mane and tail. Such a picture would inspire a poet, whose genius could then depict his worth, and describe his endurance of toil, hunger, thirst, heat and cold; and the dangers and suffering through which he has passed. He could dilate upon his sagacity and affection, and his invariable response to every wish of his rider. He might even imagine his thoughts through the long night-marches and days of the battle through which he has passed. But I am no artist Markie, and can therefore only say he is a Confederate gray.

Traveller was a horse of great stamina and was usually a good horse for an officer in battle because he was difficult to frighten. He could sometimes become nervous and spirited, however. At the Second Battle of Bull Run, while General Lee was at the front reconnoitering, dismounted and holding Traveller by the bridle, the horse became frightened at some movement of the enemy and, plunging, pulled Lee down on a stump, breaking both of his hands. Lee went through the remainder of that campaign chiefly in an ambulance. When he rode on horseback, a courier rode in front leading his horse.

After the war, Traveller accompanied Lee to Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. He lost many hairs from his tail to admirers (veterans and college students) who wanted a souvenir of the famous horse and his general. Lee wrote to his daughter Mildred that 'the boys are plucking out his tail, and he is presenting the appearance of a plucked chicken.'^[6]

Death and burials[edit]

In 1870, during Lee's funeral procession, Traveller was led behind the caisson bearing the General's casket, his saddle and bridle draped with black crepe. Not long after Lee's death, in 1871, Traveller stepped on a nail and developed tetanus.^[7] There was no cure, and he was shot to relieve his suffering.

Traveller was initially buried behind the main buildings of the college, but was unearthed by persons unknown and his bones were bleached for exhibition in Rochester, New York, in 1875/1876. In 1907, Richmond journalist Joseph Bryan paid to have the bones mounted and returned to the college, named Washington and Lee University since Lee's death, and they were displayed in the Brooks Museum, in what is now Robinson Hall. The skeleton was periodically vandalized there by students who carved their initials in it for good luck. In 1929, the bones were moved to the museum in the basement of the Lee Chapel, where they stood for 30 years, deteriorating with exposure.

Finally in 1971, Traveller's remains were buried in a wooden box encased in concrete next to the Lee Chapel on the Washington & Lee campus, a few feet away from the Lee family crypt inside, where his master's body rests. The stable where he lived his last days, directly connected to the Lee House on campus, traditionally stands with its doors left open; this is said to allow his spirit to wander freely. The 24th President of Washington & Lee (and thus a recent resident of Lee House), Thomas Burish, caught strong criticism from many members of the Washington & Lee community for closing the stable gates in violation of this tradition. Burish later had the doors to the gates repainted in a dark green color, which he referred to in campus newspapers as 'Traveller Green'.

The base newspaper of the United States Army's Fort Lee, located in Petersburg, Virginia, is named Traveller.

Traveller in verse[edit]

And now at last,

Comes Traveller and his master. Look at them well.

The horse is an iron-grey, sixteen hands high,

Short back, deep chest, strong haunch, flat legs, small head,

Delicate ear, quick eye, black mane and tail,

Wise brain, obedient mouth.

Such horses are

The jewels of the horseman's hands and thighs,

They go by the word and hardly need the rein.

They bred such horses in Virginia then,

Horses that were remembered after death

And buried not so far from Christian ground

That if their sleeping riders should arise

They could not witch them from the earth again

And ride a printless course along the grass

With the old manage and light ease of hand.

— Passage from John Brown's Body, a poem by Stephen Vincent Benet^[8]

Their sleepless, bloodshot eyes were turned to me.

Their flags hung black against the pelting sky.

Their jests and curses echoed whisperingly,

As though from long-lost years of sorrow - Why,

You're weeping! What, then? What more did you see?

A gray man on a gray horse rode by.

— Passage from Traveller, a novel by Richard Adams

War Horse Joey (november 2014)river Oak Saddlery Saddle

Lee's other horses[edit]

Although the most famous, Traveller was not Lee's only horse during the war:

• Lucy Long, a mare, was the primary backup horse to Traveller. She remained with the Lee family after the war, dying considerably after Lee, when she was thirty-four years old. She was a gift from J.E.B. Stuart who purchased her from Adam Stephen Dandridge of The Bower. Notably, she was ridden by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
• Richmond, a bay colored stallion, was acquired by General Lee in early 1861. He died in 1862 after the Battle of Malvern Hill.
• Brown-Roan, or The Roan, was purchased by Lee in West Virginia around the time of Traveller's purchase. He went blind in 1862 and had to be retired.
• Ajax, a sorrel horse, was too large for Lee to ride comfortably and was thus used infrequently.

James Longstreet, one of Lee's most trusted generals, was referred to by Lee as his Old War Horse because of his reliability. After the Civil War, many Southerners were angered by Longstreet's defection to the Republican Party and blamed him for their defeat in the Civil War. However, Lee supported reconciliation and was pleased with how Longstreet had fought in the War. This nickname was Lee's symbol of trust.

In popular media[edit]

• Moonrunners (a 1975 movie that spawned the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard) featured a dirt-track racing car, a 1955 Chevrolet, with a Confederate flag on the roof, named 'Traveller'. (Traveller was later transformed into the painted up street car, a 1969 Dodge Charger, known as the 'General Lee' in the TV series.)
• Adams, Richard. Traveller New York: Knopf, 1988. ISBN0-440-20493-3. A fictional first-person narrative, in dialect, by Traveller. His equine memoirs are told to a cat in the stable of the retired general.^[9]
• In Bronco Benny, from the Belgian comic Les Tuniques Bleues, Traveller has a major role. Only Bronco Benny, best horse tamer of the Union, is able to break in the proud horse. His capture causes war with Native Americans who see Traveller as a divinity. In the end, when the heroes fake death, Lee doesn't notice them but Traveller does and displays a little affection for them.

See also[edit]

War Horse Joey (november 2014)river Oak Saddlery Company

Notes[edit]

1. ^ ^ab'Robert E. Lee and His Horse Traveller'. HistoryNet. World History Group. June 12, 2006. Retrieved July 16, 2019.
2. ^American SaddlebredArchived 2011-09-10 at the Wayback Machine magazine, November/December 1998.
3. ^Dickinson, Jack L. Tattered Uniforms and Bright Bayonets: West Virginia's Confederate Soldiers. Huntington: Marshall University Library Associates, 1995
4. ^Broun, Thomas L. Letter to Annie Broun. 16 Sept. 1861. Southern Historical Collection. Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
5. ^Inflation counterArchived 2007-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
6. ^'Robert Lee letter to Mildred Lee, 29 October 1865'. Family Tales. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
7. ^Cavin, Tom (August 5, 2014). Reckless: The Racehorse Who Became a Marine Corps Hero. Penguin. p. 52. ISBN9780698137202.
8. ^http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700461.txt
9. ^New York Times book review.

References[edit]

• Southern Historical Society Papers, Richmond, Va., January–December, 1890.
• General Lee's Traveller, On the Campus of Washington and Lee, brochure published by the Lee Chapel Museum, 2005.
• Magner, Blake A. Traveller & Company, The Horses of Gettysburg. Gettysburg, PA: Farnsworth House Military Impressions, 1995. ISBN0-9643632-2-4.
• From War Horse To Saddle Horse, American Saddlebred, November/December 1998.

External links[edit]

• General Lee and Traveller, a poem by Rev. Robert Tuttle

Joey (War Horse)

Joey is the narrator and hero of the novel. He is a beautiful red bay with a white star on his forehead and four equal-length white socks. He is purchased as a young horse by a farmer and quickly develops an incredibly deep bond with the farmer's son, Albert. Joey is a hard worker who learns quickly and has a good grasp of what is required from him. He is courageous, determined, loyal, and brave. Moreover, he warms quickly to people when shown even the smallest amount of kindness. Joey is very adaptable and deals well with each different situation that faces him; as a War Horse, he is at his happiest when he and his best friend, Topthorn, pull ambulance carts, as it reminds him of his life with Albert on the farm. He never stops loving Albert and believes wholeheartedly in their eventual reunion.

Albert Narracott

Albert is a gentle young man who bonds immediately and deeply with his horse, Joey. He is a hard worker and put many hours into Joey's training, placing Joey's needs squarely ahead of his own. Although too young to join the Army when Joey is sold, Albert determines to become a soldier just so he can find Joey and bring him home safely. He believes in their bond and in their ability to endure together. In terms of family life, Albert is bullied by his father, whom he dislikes, and he is frustrated by his mother, who will not stand up to his father. Albert is a sensitive, quietly courageous young man who returns to his village as a hero.

Albert's Mother

Albert's mother supplies the quiet strength that underpins the Narracott family, but her hands are tied by the rules and traditions of the time that prevented a woman from overriding the sway of her husband. Her work ethic is deeply ingrained and she is matter-of-fact in most situations. She is very demonstrative in her love for Albert and is clearly a loving, encouraging, and protective mother.

War Horse Joey (november 2014)river Oak Saddlery Club

Albert's Father

War Horse Joey (november 2014)river Oak Saddlery Tack

Albert's father is a bully of a man with no time for empathy or sentiment. He expresses himself with his fists and is proud and competitive, only acquiring Joey in the first place because he does not want to lose an auction to a neighbor whom he particularly dislikes. Nonetheless, his bluster does hide love for his family; he is a changed man after selling Joey to the Army, becoming more gentle and less prone to bad temper.

Old Zoey

Zoey is a sweet older farm horse who takes Joey under her wing and helps him to learn the skills necessary for success as a farm horse. She is placid, obedient, and very much trusted. She and Joey have a close, almost mother/son type of bond.

Captain Nicholls

Captain Nicholls purchases Joey for himself from Albert's father. He captains a mounted regiment and is a strong leader; he loves his horses and protects Joey, making sure that this prized horse receives extra rations and the best treatment available. Although he instills confidence in his men, Captain Nicholls is in fact scared on account of the battles to come, and he confides in Joey his feelings about the futility of war. A man of his word, he sketches and paints Joey's portrait to send to Albert, making good on his promise to let him know how Joey is doing. Captain Nicholls is killed in an early battle and dies a hero.

Corporal Samuel Perkins

Corporal Perkins is an ex-jockey and a small, wiry little man who seems to treat the horses harshly to make up for his own lack of stature and feelings of powerlessness. He becomes less rough with Joey after Captain Nicholls rebukes him.

Topthorn

Topthorn is a beautiful and imposing black horse who rides alongside Joey at the front of the cavalry. He is Joey's best friend and constant support, almost dying due to illness but fighting his way back. Tragically, he does not survive the war.

Trooper Warren

Trooper Warren is the soldier who rides Joey after the death of Captain Nicholls. He likes to read Joey his letters from home. He is an inexperienced rider who rocks in the saddle, but what he lacks in horsemanship he makes up for in the love and the attention he gives Joey, whom he adores. He is a fearful, gentle young man who is not cut out for battle and is captured by the German army after an attack.

Emilie

Emilie is a little girl who lives with her Grandfather on a farm in France; this farm is taken over by the German army as a base camp. She is tiny and frail, having been very ill, but she is cheered enormously by the arrival of Joey and Topthorn. Despite her small size, she is confident around such large animals and is chatty and talkative with them. Her kindness keeps the horses in good spirits. When the two treasured animals are called upon to leave for battle, Emilie's condition deteriorates and she passes away.

Friedrich

Crazy Old Friedrich is so called by the German soldiers because he talks to himself, but he tells Joey that he talks to himself because nobody else understands him. He feels that he is the only sane person in the platoon because he does not want to be at war. Friedrich sees how futile the fighting is and that the soldiers are being manipulated into nonsensical hostilities; all he wants is to go back to everyday life in Germany as Butcher Friedrich. He is very loving towards Topthorn, and they develop a strong bond.