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This standard applied to the Confederate forage allowance as well.

The Army of the Potomac depended on animals for mobility, so POL referred to the forage consumed by the army‟s horses and mules. The full, daily allowance for horses and mules follows:

Mules – Paragraph 1121. “For mules, fourteen pounds of hay and nine pounds of oats, corn, or barley.”

Horses – Paragraph 1121. “The forage ration is fourteen pounds of hay and twelve pounds of oats, corn or barley.”

http://www.transportation.army.mil/History/PDF/Peninsula%20Campaign/Rodney%20Lackey%20Article_1.pdf

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