I'm happy to hear that Trot did indeed survive the battle. Those Civil War stories are endless and heartbreaking. The eagle who scouted out the enemy, but died alone in a cage in a government building, in a fire, after the war... the little details can be the most heart wrenching. A "double" (replica, of sorts) of that eagle is on display in a museum in Madison, Wisconsin, and it breaks my heart to think of that great eagle spending his final years in a cage....war is terrible, and people can be terrible, but I applaud you for finding the redemptive side of it.