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W. T. Sherman
P. H. Sheridan
Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals

CHAPTER XIII
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He is then dragged out by horses or mules, another is let into the ring, and the same performance is renewed.
On the occasion when I was present one of the bulls was not turned aside by the attacks in the rear, the presentations of the red flag, etc., etc., but kept right on, and placing his horns under the flanks of a horse threw him and his rider to the ground with great force.

The horse was killed and the rider lay prostrate as if dead.

The bull was then lassoed and killed in the manner above described.

Men came in and carried the dead man off in a litter.

When the slaughtered bull and horse were dragged out, a fresh bull was turned into the ring.
Conspicuous among the spectators was the man who had been carried out on a litter but a few minutes before.


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