The 1891 cavalry regs, required the horses when in garrison to be fed 6 pounds of grain a day, oats or corn, and the horse was entitled to 100 lbs of straw a month for bedding, mucked daily. They ate better than the troops.

Through the many years of relic hunting and metal detecting Northern Virginia from Washington, DC to Chancellorsville, Bull Run to Culpeper, I’ve recovered only one Picket Pin. You would think more were lost.

These are interesting videos. I have no experience with horses and this sheds light on another aspect of the civil war.

I like how you always use primary sources

Facinating stuff.. given me a lot of food for thought with regard to how the cavalry were supplied during the Great War, especially during the advances of1918

Love what you’re doing bud! Thanks for sharing our history with the younger generations.

Great report !! Thank you sir !!!

Great video. I would never have thought that there would be so much information available about this kind of equipment. Great job on your video it was fun and interesting.

Your research is impeccable.

Another cracking piece :-)

Great information. Thank you

Wow, the combo of your horses wearing hobbles & being picketed is very cool - Like they would have been! So happy your channel exists well done!

Again very useful information.

Good stuff thanks for sharing

Great job! The details you provide are indispensable. Can you do a video on how Union cavalry attended to troopers' wounds after a skirmish a long way from camp? Thanks!

very informative thanks

Weren't you a second lieutenant just a couple months ago? Love your vids...keep up the good work.

Steve, did you also have a chance to look at any CS ordinance returns? I know they are very lean compared to US ordinance reports. I actually have a small return found in Jim McGhee's Campaigning With Marmalade, of one of my Grandpa's Cavalry Regiment (8th MO CAV REG, CS) but it is limited and only partially in 1863 through their time in Little Rock prior to be pushed to Camden, AR for the rest of the WBTS (sans MG Price's MO expedition in Fall 1864.) Thanks for these 2 vids on picket pins & Lariats. Of course, you are the standard in Cavalry research and sharing it on KZfaq! I try to share it regularly on our company. FB page for Co I, 8th TX CAV Terry's Texas Rangers.

The rope could have been of a lesser quality than requested too... Replacement could have done locally too, as it is rope and easily obtained via sutlers, town stores, etc... Was there a option to replace rope with a chain? Videos are great 👍

Great info and thanks. I'm assuming the horses in the background of this video are hobbled?

Ok. Got a subscriber. See if you can find something out about the rangers

The origins of crop circles

Could you do a video on hobbleing?

How do you train your horse for a picket line?

Check out the Rhodesian Grey Scouts .

Excellent! cavalry_historian

They may have rotated their horses after a period of time. To allow tied horses to recuperate

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"360-foot-long football field"... Oh, you mean SOCCER. I thought you were an American; guess not. That was a LOT of reading; I'm guessing more and more of the Union cavalry was part of the siege of Richmond/Petersburg and didn't picket their horses.