Death of a Mascot – Sallie Ann Jarret

156 YEARS AGO – On February 6, 1865, during the Union advance at Hatcher’s Run, Virginia, the canine mascot “Sallie” of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry was struck by a bullet and killed. Despite being under heavy fire, several soldiers put aside their arms to bury her on the spot.
 
When the veterans of the 11th erected their monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1890, a life-size bronze statue of Sallie was included on a granite pedestal in a place of honor at the front of the monument. Her statue lies below the towering bronze figure of a skirmisher, recalling the soldiers who fought beside her and whom she guarded on Gettysburg’s fields.
 
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