Nelson and Washington were inseparable during the war. Nelsons work was to ride though danger, year after year. Washington rode Nelson in bitter cold and brutish heat, the horse struggled through mud and ice and snow and brush, up steep hills and through rocky riverbeds, he suffered thorns and insect bites, rocky paths and steep hills. He was grazed by bullets more than once, twice cut by bayonets. Washington favored him because the horse did not rattle when cannot shells and bullets were whizzing all around them both. Nelson, the reserved Washington once wrote his wife Martha, was my bravest soldier, my closest friend, the rock upon which I stood. Jon Katz
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 15:28:50 +0000
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