Mane Attraction (from "Stuffed")

Behind a glass panel at the VMI Museum in Lexington, VA is a mounted hide of Little Sorrel- the famed war horse of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. Col. Keith Gibson, executive director of the VMI Museum, says Little Sorrel serves as a window into history and bolsters visitors’ ability to imagine the Civil War. But scholar Nicole Maurantonio argues the presence and preservation of Little Sorrel is problematic because of the horse’s connection to the Confederacy and Gen. Jackson.