Monday, April 4, 2011

A sale of Government horses . . .

. . . took place at Warsaw, Ill., last week. They had been purchased by some swindler for Government, and been rejected as unfit for the service. There were 111 sold, at prices ranging from $13 to $55.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 20, 1862, p. 2

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