Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Hair |
Catalog Number |
0985.13.01196 |
Description |
The souvenir consists of a piece of red-brown horse hair (Little Sorrel) attached to paperboard along with a news clipping. Also attached to the paperboard is a circle of white and black horse hair (Gallant Gray) (0985.13.1195) tied in a light red silk ribbon. |
Material |
hair (horse) ; paper |
Dimensions |
H-12 W-8 inches |
Provenance |
"Piece of Old Sorrel's hair." William P. Switser, a member of the Stonewall Brigade, cut the hair (0985.13.1195) from Brig. Gen. Turner Ashby's horse, Gallant Gray [actually Tom Telegraph], as it lay dying and attached this hair and Little Sorrel's hair (which Switser cut from its tail) to the same paperboard. Probably, Gallant Gray is the horse who died on June 6, 1862 while Ashby was commanding the rear guard action at Harrisonburg, Virginia. Ashby continued to lead his men in the fight and took a bullet in the chest, dying the same day. |
People |
Little Sorrel Jackson, Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) |
Subjects |
hair mourning (tentative) animals horses |