[squarebarb]

I love it too, in fact I have it framed, but that horse is way too fat for that time and that place. The Army was starving, after all.

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh, I don't know. You could hang a hat on his hipbones . . .

But he's no hunter such as a Virginian would own. He looks like a warmblood.

There are so few historical painters who are really up on horses. Some Civil War artists can't even draw a horse correctly.