In Pursuit of Honor (1995) on Netflix
Lieutenant Marshall Buxton arrives at a Texas cavalry outpost where the remount herd is slated for destruction as the Army mechanizes. Ordered to take the horses to be killed, he refuses.
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Plot summary
In 1932, veterans of the First World War gather in Washington, D.C., to demand early payment of bonus certificates. Mounted cavalry troops are called out for crowd control, and when Major John Hardesty orders sabers drawn, First Sergeant John Libbey and three other soldiers refuse, since the demonstrators are men they served alongside. The Army punishes them with a posting to an isolated Texas outpost where they tend the remount herd. Lieutenant Marshall Buxton arrives there two years afterward, sent to the unit after striking a soldier who had injured his horse. Hardesty, now a colonel, takes command of the post, where the shift toward a mechanized army means the horses are to be destroyed. Buxton is told to carry out the killing and says he cannot have it on his conscience.
Cast
- Christopher Dibbas Evan Buckley
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about In Pursuit of Honor (1995)
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- Research at the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the records at the MacArthur Memorial found no record of the slaughter of horses the film depicts in 1934, or any order or plan for such a destruction.
- The film has the Army wiping out its horse cavalry in 1934, but the Army and National Guard kept horse units into the 1940s, and the 26th Cavalry Regiment of the Philippine Scouts, Merrill's Marauders and parts of the 3rd Infantry and 10th Mountain Divisions used horses and mules in the Second World War.
- Slaughter of feral horses by ranchers in the intermountain region was not uncommon in the 1960s, and local horsemen's "Montana Peak" Stetsons resembled the old cavalry's "Campaign Hat", which the article says might have fed the belief that the Army was slaughtering horses.
