Central PA Civil War Round Table to Feature Chris Bagley

The Central PA Civil War Round Table will meet on Tuesday evening, June 4, in the PA Military Museum auditorium, 51 Boal Avenue, Boalsburg, at 7:00 p.m.

The featured speaker will be Chris Bagley on “The Horse at Gettysburg Prepared for the Day of Battle.”

Bagley will discuss the horses at the Battle of Gettysburg and describe how they were chosen, trained, and used during the conflict.

Some 165,000 combined troops were aided by 80,000 horses and mules. The cost of the engagement would be 51,000 men killed, missing, or captured and about 5,000 horses killed.

Bagley has written a book on this subject which explores the functions of horses in battle and how the animals were used as mounts for officers, by the cavalry, and by the men who needed the animals to move artillery and wagons.