" Using firsthand accounts, the many uses of equines during the war, the methods by which they were obtained, their costs, their suffering on the battlefields and roads, their consumption by soldiers, and racing, mounted music and other themes are all addressed. "-- Provided by publisher.

For want of a horse (or mule) -- Recruiting the equines -- Costs, preferences, transportation and training -- Lost on the field of battle -- Lack of feed, bad roads and poor care -- Runaways, stampedes and Wauhatchie -- The lightning mule brigade -- Hippophagy -- Equines and morale -- War's end and remembrance -- The naming of Civil War equines -- Roster of Civil War equine veterans.