Author: SMITH, SHARON B.
Title: Stonewall Jackson's Little Sorrel an Unlikely Hero of the Civil War
Description: Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2016. Hardcover. ISBN: 1493019244. B&W Illustrations; 9.1 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches; xviii, 270 pages; Hard cover is navy blue boards with gold lettering on spine. NEW, with NEW DJ. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with b/w pictures. "During the Civil War and throughout the rest of the nineteenth century there was no star that shone brighter than that of a small red horse who was known as Stonewall Jackson's Little Sorrel. Robert E. Lee's Traveller eventually became more familiar but he was mostly famous for his looks. Not so with the little sorrel. Early in the war he became known as a horse of great personality and charm, an eccentric animal with an intriguing background. Like Traveller, his enduring fame was due initially to the prominence of his owner and the uncanny similarities between the two of them. The little red horse long survived Jackson and developed a following of his own. In fact, he lived longer than almost all horses who survived the Civil War as well as many thousands of human veterans. His death in 1886 drew attention worthy of a deceased general, his mounted remains have been admired by hundreds of thousands of people since 1887, and the final burial of his bones (after a cross-country, multi-century odyssey) in 1997 was the occasion for an event that could only be described as a funeral, and a well-attended one at that. Stonewall Jackson's Little Sorrel is the story of that horse." Index.. New in New dust jacket .

Keywords: 1493019244 Military History; American History; Civil War; War between the States; Cavalry Horses; War Horses; Biography; Confederacy; Civil War Battles; Cultural History Animals American History Geography Biography/Memoirs/Journals Horses: : Nonfiction Re