List of horses of the American Civil War
This is a list of named horses and the senior Union and Confederate officers who rode them during the American Civil War.
| Horse | Officer | Notes |
| Ajax | Ajax was reportedly too large for Lee to ride comfortably and was therefore used infrequently | |
| Aldebaron | Sheridan's first horse | |
| Almond Eye | ||
| Bayard | Kearny's secondary horse; Kearny was killed at Chantilly while riding this horse | |
| Bill | ||
| Billy | Named for William T. Sherman | |
| Black Bess | ||
| Blackie | Meade's secondary horse | |
| Blackjack | ||
| Boney | Rosecrans' favorite horse | |
| Brown Roan | One of Lee's secondary horses, Brown Roan went blind in 1862 and had to be retired | |
| Bucephalus | ||
| Burns | McClellan's secondary horse | |
| Butler | Hampton's favorite horse | |
| Captain | ||
| Charlemagne | ||
| Cincinnati | Grant's favorite and most famous horse, acquired in 1864; most paintings of and memorials to Grant depict him astride Cincinnati, including the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial at the base of Capitol Hill | |
| Cornwall | Sedgwick's secondary horse | |
| Daniel Webster | ||
| Decatur | Kearny's secondary horse, shot through the neck at the Battle of Fair Oaks | |
| Dixie | ||
| Dixie | Horse killed at the Battle of Perryville | |
| Dolly | Sherman's secondary horse | |
| Don Juan | One of Custer's secondary horses | |
| Duke | In a letter in 1888, Sherman wrote that his favorite horse throughout the war was the one he rode in Atlanta | |
| Egypt | One of many secondary horses used by Grant | |
| Fancy | Reynolds' favorite horse | |
| Fanny | ||
| Faugh-a-Ballagh | ||
| Fire-Eater | ||
| Firefly | ||
| Fleeter | ||
| Fleetfoot | ||
| Fly-By-Night | A gift from General Robert E. Lee in 1864 | |
| Fox | Grant's primary horse | |
| Gertie | Meade's secondary horse | |
| Grand Old Canister | Sickles' secondary horse | |
| Grape | Sickles' secondary horse | |
| Grey Eagle | ||
| Handsome Joe | Sedgwick's secondary horse | |
| Harry | One of Custer's secondary horses | |
| Hero | ||
| Highfly | Stuart's secondary horse | |
| Lightning | Forrest's secondary horse | |
| Jack | One of many secondary horses used by Grant | |
| Jasper | ||
| Jeff Davis | ||
| Jeff Davis | One of many secondary horses used by Grant | |
| Jinny | ||
| Kangaroo | One of many secondary horses used by Grant | |
| Kentuck | McClellan's favorite horse | |
| King Philip | Forrest's favorite horse after the death of Roderick | |
| Lancer | Custer's favorite horse | |
| Little Sorrel | Jackson was fatally wounded while riding Little Sorrel at the Battle of Chancellorsville; Little Sorrel is buried on the Virginia Military Institute parade deck mere feet from Jackson's famous statue | |
| Lookout | Named after the Battle of Lookout Mountain | |
| Lucy Long | A gift from J.E.B. Stuart, Lucy Long was the primary back-up horse used by Lee | |
| Methuselah | Grant's first horse upon re-entering the Army in 1861 | |
| Milroy | The horse was captured from Union General Robert H. Milroy at Second Winchester in 1863 and subsequently named after him. | |
| Moscow | Reportedly Kearny's favorite, though Kearny avoided riding him due to his conspicuous white color | |
| My Maryland | Stuart's secondary horse | |
| Nellie Gray | Horse killed at the Battle of Opequon | |
| Old Baldy | Meade's favorite horse, which he rode at the Battle of Gettysburg; Old Baldy was wounded at First Bull Run and Antietam | |
| Old Bob | ||
| Old Jim | ||
| Old Spot | ||
| Pocohontas | ||
| Pretty | ||
| Prince | Reynolds' secondary horse | |
| Plug Ugly | ||
| Rambler | Sedgwick's favorite horse | |
| Red Eye | ||
| Red Pepper | ||
| Richmond | Richmond died in 1862 after the Battle of Malvern Hill | |
| Rienzi | Renamed after Sheridan's famous ride at the Battle of Winchester | |
| Rifle | ||
| Roanoke | One of Custer's secondary horses | |
| Roderick | Forrest's favorite horse | |
| Rondy | The first horse Grant used in battle | |
| Sam | Sherman's secondary horse | |
| Shiloh | ||
| Skylark | ||
| Slicky | ||
| Tammany | Sickles' favorite horse | |
| Tobey | William Rosecrans | |
| Tom Telegraph | ||
| Traveller | Lee's favorite horse; Traveller died a few months after Lee in 1871, and was later buried beside him at Lee Chapel in Virginia | |
| Virginia | Noted in Gettysburg Campaign | |
| Warren | Pulled Grimes' coffin during his funeral procession | |
| Yorkshire |