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By Sharon B. Smith

ISBN-10: 1493019244

ISBN-13: 9781493019243

During the Civil warfare and in the course of the remainder of the 19th century there has been no big name that shone brighter than that of a small purple horse who was once often called Stonewall Jackson’s Little Sorrel. Robert E. Lee’s visitor ultimately grew to become extra commonly used yet he was once more often than not well-known for his seems to be. now not so with the little sorrel. Early within the conflict he turned often called a horse of serious character and beauty, an eccentric animal with an fascinating historical past. Like tourist, his enduring popularity used to be due at the start to the prominence of his proprietor and the uncanny similarities among the 2 of them. The little purple horse lengthy survived Jackson and constructed a following of his personal. in truth, he lived longer than just about all horses who survived the Civil warfare in addition to many millions of human veterans. His dying in 1886 drew consciousness invaluable of a deceased common, his fixed continues to be were well-liked through millions of individuals seeing that 1887, and the ultimate burial of his bones (after a cross-country, multi-century odyssey) in 1997 was once the social gathering for an occasion that may in basic terms be defined as a funeral, and a well-attended one at that. Stonewall Jackson’s Little Sorrel is the tale of that horse.

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