He desires you to report immediately the number of men you have and to inform him whether or not you are collecting horses and harnesses.

Three days before the battle, another detachment of Virginia cavalry had briefly occupied Hanover, collecting supplies and horses from local citizens.

As Cuba was the home of Narváez and his family, he had many contacts through whom he could collect more supplies, horses, and men.

More prosaically, he also used the lasso in order to collect riderless horses running around after a battle.

From 1870 to 1925, he said, several factories perched on the bay collected dead horses and other animals and turned them into fertilizer.

Men were rushing around, putting out fires, collecting panicked horses, tending to wounded, and battling the few remaining invaders they had trapped.

Historian John D. Winters reports: "Federal troops collected horses, mules, and sugar in large quantities.

They began to collect their weapons, packs and bedrolls and horses, working out the march in their heads.

Here Benjamin built a rough hut and began raising cattle and collecting any wild cattle and horses he could find in the hills.

The foot soldiers were immediately sent to fight while the cavalrymen were marched to Extremadura where they were to collect horses.