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Custer's favorite horse Little Sorrel (also Old Sorrel) Stonewall Jackson: Jackson was fatally wounded while riding Little Sorrel at the Battle of Chancellorsville; Little Sorrel is buried on the Virginia Military Institute parade deck mere feet from Jackson's famous statue Lookout: Joseph Hooker: Named after the Battle of Lookout Mountain ...
[78] His horse was named "Little Sorrel" (also known as "Old Sorrel"), a small chestnut gelding which was a captured Union horse from a Connecticut farm. [79] [80] He rode Little Sorrel throughout the war, and was riding him when he was shot at Chancellorsville. Little Sorrel died at age 36 and is buried near a statue of Jackson on the parade ...
Fulkerson kept the horse for the rest of its life, but called him "Old Bob." When the horse died, former Confederates from the Bristol area assembled and conducted a military funeral for it. In 1885, Stonewall Jackson's horse, "Little Sorrel," was brought to Bristol on a tour and Fulkerson rode it as a number of former veterans assembled to pay ...
The equestrian statue depicts the Confederate general, on his horse, Sorrel, holding the horse's reins in his left hand. [1] The bronze sculpture measures 20 x 7 x 18 ft, with Mt. Airy granite base measuring 20 x 9 x 18 ft, surrounded by a wrought iron fence. [1]
Little Sorrel – "Cap-in-his-Eye's" horse, also known as Old Sorrel. One of Traveller's closest friends. Sorrel sometimes foresees the future, predicting Cap-in-his-Eye's death shortly before it happens. Skylark – "Jine-the-Cavalry's" primary horse. Proud, but friendly. Joker – Major Talcott's horse. Usually good-humored and sarcastic.
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The largest bas-relief sculpture in the world, the Confederate Memorial Carving depicts three Confederate leaders of the Civil War: President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (on their favorite horses, Blackjack, Traveller, and Little Sorrel, respectively).
Little Sorrel, the favorite horse of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, was born at a farm in Somers. [6] [7] Geography. Somers is at 8] According to the United ...