02/05/2023
In the 1850's Col. Thomas Bacon, of Edgefield, S.C. by breeding a Baltimore C**k (known as Burnt Eyes) over a yard of Irish Gilder hens direct from John Stone, of Marblehead, Mass. The cross procuced wonderful fighting c***s with a savage rushing style of fighting that was then unknown in the south, and proved to be absolutely game, although the "Burnt Eye" c**k had produced offsprings from other matings that were considered short on gameness. Col. Bacon bred and fought these fowl for a number of years with marked success as "Burnt Eye-Gilder crosses, " and it was at a main at Augusta, Georgia, in 1856 between Bacon and Bohler against a Mr. Franklin, of Columbia, S.C. that they were given the name of Warhorse by one Peter Sherron, who owned one of the c***s being fought by Bacon, and which won a sensational battle.
C**ks run in weight 4:06 to shakes, and are black or black with lemon hackle and saddle. Hens are black to whipporwill brown, and both have dark legs and daw or hazel eyes.
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