at the end of August 1918, when the total number of horses and mules was 828,360, the number designated as riding horses was 193,747, or 23.4 per cent. And that is riding horses, not cavalry horses. We don’t have a number that separates cavalry horses from the other riding horses, but one estimate for the 1880s, for a force of eight infantry regiments, three cavalry regiments, two artillery batteries, officers for all these and a general and his staff, gives 1,200 cavalry horses and 363 other riding horses.
