Reluctant Participants: Animals and the American Civil War

The story and animals and the Civil War has been ignored, with only a scattering of works on famous horses until the last two decades. Naturally, most Civil War histories are about people and their relationship to war, but it is incomplete without including animals. One and a half million horses died during the war. Although they played a secondary role to humans who controlled them, war animals played a vital role and paid a heavy price in the war that changed America.