HAIR-RAISING ADVENTURES.

The section introduces a series of articles on the animal-related anecdotes of soldiers enlisted for duty during the U.S. Civil War. It was the impelling spirit of adventure that drew many to enlist for duty during the Civil War. After the war finally finished, some of the animals that accompanied their owners to war were memorialized in poetry, paintings and statues. Other animal associations were preserved as images in commemorative medals and photographs taken after the war. Not all of these associations were positive, however, as evidenced by the powerful hatred for the guard dogs expressed by the prisoners of Andersonville.