After seeing thread about Camel at Vicksburg, thought about these memorials for animals of the war and some later. Old Douglas is one of them with a Memorial.
In 1864 the 104th was fighting in Georgia as part of the Atlanta Campaign. Harvey was wounded and captured near Kennesaw Mountain, but he was returned the next day under a flag of truce.
Several months later, Harvey’s owner was seriously injured at the battle of Nashville but healed well enough to be with the regiment in North Carolina when the Confederate Army surrendered and fighting stopped in the eastern theatre. Stearns and Harvey finished their term of service there and in June 1865 they traveled to Camp Taylor near Cleveland where they received pay and were mustered out of the military.
After seeing thread about Camel at Vicksburg, thought about these memorials for animals of the war and some later. Old Douglas is one of them with a Memorial.
Old Isham was the favorite horse of Confederate Major General Franklin Benjamin Cheatham, Commander of the 4th Tennessee Infantry Regiment of the Army of Tennessee during the Civil War. When Old Isham died, the horse was buried with full military honors on General Cheatham's farm a few years...