The collection consists of a poem by Mary Whitney Morrison, "Old Ned, The Last Surviving Horse of Our Civil War" (1896), a photograph of Old Ned at forty, a photograph of Old Ned's owner, B. F. Crawford, and an account of the capture of Old Ned from the Confederates and his subsequent participation in Civil War ceremonies throughout the latter decades of the nineteenth century.
In Historical Collections and Labor Archives, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. (#1929-0001H/HCVF)
Biographical or Historical Sketch
B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Crawford (1836-1923) was a quartermaster sergeant in Company C of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry during the Civil War. After losing his mount during a battle, he was remounted on Old Ned, a horse captured from the Confederate troops during a battle; after the war Crawford and Old Ned returned to Crawford's home in North East, Pennsylvania, driving a sulky. Crawford later served as a conductor on several western railroads; Old Ned was celebrated as the last surviving horse from the Civil War, and was lauded at numerous ceremonies and memorials.
Binding notes
Housed in ShareBox 011. boxShare011 GST/P/1/2 c.1 (Archival/Manuscript Material) bound in ShareBox 011
