Dog Names that Start with Sa

At the very start of the Civil War, in 1861, a four-week-old Bull Terrier was presented to the recruits of the 11^th Pennsylvania Infantry to serve as their mascot. The brindle pup was so tiny that she could barely carry her own weight on her still-wobbly legs and she was soon dubbed Sallie Ann Jarrett; Sallie Ann after a young lady from a nearby town and Jarrett after their commander, Colonel Phaon Jarrett. She grew quickly under the care of the 11^th infantry and soon she was marching along with the unit as they learned the ropes. Sally Ann learned right along with them, first weaving in and out among the soldiers as they marched but eventually learning to take her place next to the commander at the head of the regiment and learning the different drum rolls and bugle calls. When the regiment was sent south in 1862 to help quell the rebellion, she went right along with them once again. 

Sallie showed her courage starting with her first battle, barking ferociously at the rebels and attempting to catch bullets after they struck the ground. Sallie refused when the men tried to get her to take the rear during the particularly brutal fighting that occurred at Antietam and at one point in the war a Minie ball, a type of spin-stabilized rifle bullet, became lodged in her neck and while the company surgeon examined and treated her like any other enlisted man, he could not safely operate to have the bullet removed. The brave dog remained loyally by the side of her regiment for three years during the war guarding and protecting those who had fallen and couldn’t protect themselves. It is even said that during the 1963 spring review of the Army of the Potomac, Abraham Lincoln raised his hat in respect to the patriotic pooch. Although she was quite the career dog, Sallie Ann Jarrett still managed to find time to give birth to and raise five litters of puppies. Unfortunately, Sallie Ann, like so many of the soldiers and civilians of the Civil War, did not see its end as she was shot through the head in the line of duty in February of 1865, but she was so beloved by her regiment that even under heavy fire they stopped to bury her. A statue was erected in honor of the 11^th Pennsylvania infantry in 1890, and regiment survivors were pleased to see that at the base of the monument of the bronze soldier that watches over Gettysburg was the ever watchful bronze form of Sallie Ann Jarrett.