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The statue is NOT life-sized. Itβs quite small and is perhaps 1/3 the size of a 30 pound dog.
[td]On February 6, 1865, during the Union advance at [[Battle of Hatcher's Run|Hatcher's Run]], [[Virginia]], she was struck by a bullet and killed. Despite being under heavy fire, several soldiers put aside their arms to bury her on the spot.<ref>Stouffer and Cubbison, p. 62.</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]When the veterans of the 11th erected their monument on the [[Gettysburg Battlefield]] in 1890, a life-size bronze statue of Sallie was included on a granite pedestal in a place of honor at the front of the monument. Her statue lies below the towering bronze figure of a skirmisher, recalling the soldiers who fought beside her and whom she guarded on Gettysburg's fields.[/td]
[td]When the veterans of the 11th erected their monument on the [[Gettysburg Battlefield]] in 1890, a bronze statue of Sallie was included on a granite pedestal in a place of honor at the front of the monument. Her statue lies below the towering bronze figure of a skirmisher, recalling the soldiers who fought beside her and whom she guarded on Gettysburg's fields.[/td] [td][/td]
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[td]On February 6, 1865, during the Union advance at [[Battle of Hatcher's Run|Hatcher's Run]], [[Virginia]], she was struck by a bullet and killed. Despite being under heavy fire, several soldiers put aside their arms to bury her on the spot.<ref>Stouffer and Cubbison, p. 62.</ref>[/td]Revision as of 07:22, 3 September 2025
[/td][td]On February 6, 1865, during the Union advance at [[Battle of Hatcher's Run|Hatcher's Run]], [[Virginia]], she was struck by a bullet and killed. Despite being under heavy fire, several soldiers put aside their arms to bury her on the spot.<ref>Stouffer and Cubbison, p. 62.</ref>[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]When the veterans of the 11th erected their monument on the [[Gettysburg Battlefield]] in 1890, a life-size bronze statue of Sallie was included on a granite pedestal in a place of honor at the front of the monument. Her statue lies below the towering bronze figure of a skirmisher, recalling the soldiers who fought beside her and whom she guarded on Gettysburg's fields.[/td]
[td]When the veterans of the 11th erected their monument on the [[Gettysburg Battlefield]] in 1890, a bronze statue of Sallie was included on a granite pedestal in a place of honor at the front of the monument. Her statue lies below the towering bronze figure of a skirmisher, recalling the soldiers who fought beside her and whom she guarded on Gettysburg's fields.[/td] [td][/td]
[td][/td] [td]==See also==[/td]
[td]==See also==[/td]
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