TY - SER
KW - Pennsylvania Railroad
KW - American Civil War
KW - soldiers
KW - veterans
KW - fugitives from slavery
KW - chaplains
KW - dogs
KW - Black Americans
KW - firefighters
AU - Florence W. Biros
AB - Firefighters adopt a stray mongrel that first wanders into their firehouse. When the men enlist in the 102nd regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, Dog Jack also joins up.
C1 - 1860s
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Strip District
C4 - Children’s; Historical; Biographical; War; Christian; Road
CY - New Wilmington, PA
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - An oil portrait of Pittsburgh's famous Civil War canine was commissioned at the war's end; it still hangs at the Soldiers and Sailors Museum in Pittsburgh.
N2 - Firefighters adopt a stray mongrel that first wanders into their firehouse. When the men enlist in the 102nd regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, Dog Jack also joins up.
PB - Son-Rise Publications
PP - New Wilmington, PA
PY - 1990
RN - Florence Biros (1931—2014), a writer, formed Son-Rise Publications in 1976 to publish a series of historical novels. She lived in New Wilmington, Lawrence County.
EP - 180 p.
TI - Dog Jack
ER -