A Squirrel in Combat
"Extra clothing and bedding, cooking stoves, banjos, tamborines, stove pipe hats, fishing tackle, sidesaddles, rowboats and sailboats, pet raccoon, game cocks,...and one solemn looking blinking old owl, comprise a few of the extras disposed of to the highest bidder...One of the men carried a pet squirrel all through the raid."
The fate of this Southern squirrel in federal captivity was not revealed. Nor was his allegiance.
Labels: 1864, battle, civil war, cloyds mountain, confederate, howard, mcmanus, rollins, squirrel, union, virginia and tennessee railroad