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11th Pennsylvania's & Sallie - I
11th Pennsylvania's & Sallie - I

Sallie, the 11th Pennsylvania's Smallest Member

Sallie was given to the regiment as a puppy and took part in all their battles, taking position at the end of the firing line and barking furiously at the enemy. She was separated from the regiment at Gettysburg during the retreat through the town. After the battle the men returned to the scene of the first days fighting and found Sallie, weak but alive, maintaining a vigil over the dead and dying.

Sallie was killed at the Battle of Hatcher's Run in February of 1865, and in spite of heavy Confederate fire several men stopped to bury her. When the monument was designed the regiment's survivors unanimously decided to include a tribute to their smallest comrade. She is one of two dogs depicted on monuments at Gettysburg (the other is on the Irish Brigade monument) and the only one representing a dog who was in the battle.

Today she is remembered on the western face of the monument, as she calmly looks across the fields of Gettysburg in search of her old friends.

Members of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry dedicated the Monument on September 3, 1890.

âTo him the common soldier, to our dead comrades, whether here beneath his native soil he sleeps, or under the softer skies of the sunny south-land, we turn in grateful, tearful remembrances. We rear these monuments to their honor and in their memory. But in the unborn ages yet to come, long after we too shall have passed away, a saved and grateful republic will rear in history an everlasting memorial to their devotion and their valor, more changeless than brass and more enduring than marble, and that shall exist as long as these voiceless hills bear testimony to Gettysburg's fateful day" ~ Captain H.B. Piper

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Taken on: September 26, 2014
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