From the book:
Little Sorrel, the beloved war horse of one of the South's greatest
generals, was originally a Northerner, and at fourteen hands, was among
the smallest mounts of any officer on either side. A Confederate general
once called him "a sorry chestnut with a shambling gait," but one of
Jackson's aides said that in battle "the old sorrel horse seemed endowed
with the style and form of an Arabian." Although he was the regular
mount of one the war's greatest risk-takers, he survived Stonewall
Jackson by twenty-three years and received a hero's funeral more than a
century after the end of the Civil War.
The horse is preserved and stuffed and can be seen at the Virginia Military Institute Museum (for real).
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