Disclaimer: I love Dogs and if you remember I had to put my 13 year faithful companion Buffet down a few months back and there is NOT a day that goes by that I don't think of him or see something that reminds me of him. During the CW dogs in a yankee prison camp didn't last long.
THE DOG THAT "WAS EAT,"
H D. Foote (Company G, First Mississippi Cavalry), writes: '•Seeing Comrade Cliristian's mention of Comrade Page's report in the February reminds me very forcibly of the dog incident. Well do 1 remember the time and circumstances. The dog—a line, large, fat, black setter—followed the coal wagon into camp, but did not return with it. It think it was more of a thrust at Captain Sponable than real meanes that caused the dog to be killed, although it was most assuredly eaten, I will always remember the cry for bread and meat made by the camp on General Hooker"review, and how Captain Sponable punished us with a three-days" fast. Soon after that he lost his dog. One day the dog was missing; the next day an ad. appeared on the bulletin board, with the little epitaph. While this was being read, the dog's meat and bones were boiling in the big kettle, and it made a fine" dish of stew. The next day the pit cleaner found the head and hide of the dog. Then the wrath came, and who suffered the penalty';' Every cook in the camp was carried to headquarters. Between two hundred and three hundred men were made to stand in line for three days, and Captain Sonable said they knew who killed his dog. and they had to tell or take the punishment every day while they remained there. On the third day one man stepped forward and owned up. The Captain asked for the names of others who helped him, when Johnnie said: ' Captain, it is not in me to tell on other;; I will take the punishment.' When Reb was threatened with a ride on ' Morgan's ninie " if he did not inform oi; rill' others, he said: ' do any kind of punishment you may, I I would suffer deat before I would tell on others.' With this resolute and determined answer, he was ordered to the dungeon. In a day or so all owned up to the good dinner they had on dog meat and how they had killed him. After some days" punishment in the dungeon, they were turned out, with ball and chain as companions.
and not for killing the dog. "Perhaps I R Connelly, of Compiany K. Third Kenincky (Cieneral l)uke"s regiment), can give a correct account of this incident; or .\be McMurdy, Joe Arnold, of the same company, if living, could remember more distinctly than I. who was only sixteen years old at that time."