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04-08-2019, 10:34 AM
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Pulled this from some old Cavalry Journal articles...interesting!
Horses require 12 pounds of grain per day (mostly corn). A wagon, pulled by a 6-mule team can haul roughly 2,000lbs. Wearing pack saddles, the same 6 mules can carry only 200lbs each, total of 1,200 pounds. Mules require 10lbs of grain per day. Terry's Column (Little Bighorn Campaign) numbered some 1,131 personnel and 1,694 horses and mules required eight tons of supply per day, carried by 150 wagons...even when rolling four abreast, the wagon column stretched over a half mile.
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