"Man’s Best Comrade: Sallie and the 11th Pennsylvania" Topic
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| Tango01 | 06 Aug 2019 2:59 p.m. PST |
"The Eleventh Pennsylvania Infantry received a welcome visitor to their camp in West Chester in May of 1861. Their presence on the county fair grounds twenty miles west of Philadelphia had been a novelty to its citizens who came out in packs to watch the amateur soldiers drill under Colonel Phaon Jarrett. The enlisted men particularly enjoyed whenever the prettiest girl–Sallie Ann–dropped by to chat. Richard Coulter, who eventually commanded the unit, declared the camp had "more the semblance of a Maytime picnic or a pleasure excursion, than what it was intended to be, a school of instruction, drill, and discipline." Nevertheless he too was thrilled when one day a local civilian carried a small basket into camp and out popped "a little puffy, pug-nosed, black-muzzled canine, scarce four weeks old, and barely able to toddle upon its short and clumsy legs."…"
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| mghFond | 07 Aug 2019 4:41 p.m. PST |
Touching story least for a dog fan like myself. |
| cfuzwuz | 08 Aug 2019 8:38 p.m. PST |
Great job Tango! You made a grown man cry. |
| Tango01 | 14 Aug 2019 11:38 a.m. PST |
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