The horses died

In a battery there would be about 12 guns. We had six horses to a gun, you see, and then maybe four horses to a limber. In other words, the limber was carrying the bullets for us to use on the gun. There wasn’t an automobile, or a truck. We had small railroad tracks, you see, that brought all our wounded down, and brought extra guns in, oh, not extra guns, extra ammunition, and they kept us filled up. And there was two battalions of them just putting in the railroad, the little railroad now, don’t get me, not a great big thing, nothing but horses. And this little track I’m telling you about, only a single track. You could only go one way one time and the other way the next time. Horses used to pull that, you see. Oh there’s no trains or nothing like that, if you know what I’m getting at. Coming down near the canals, and you see a lot of water in France and Belgium - little rivers and you know, and mud, mud, mud. You’d hardly believe this, you know. And I’ve seen the mud up to the horses bellies. We had to take them out of there, they just died, just from mud.