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on horseback could? always to be seen moving quietly through and about all the operations and movements upon the field, pausing here and there to approve some excellence or to suggest some modification. Thus were many incidents to this active life, some amusing and some tragic, few of which I can recall. We had from one hundred to three hundred recruits in the depot going through the schools of instruction and above a hundred horses for their use. Among the latter was one named "Turk" that was a error to recruits. He had his own views regarding the proper duration of riding exercises and when that time had expired he could not be persuaded to remain any longer on the field but would break for the stables