Equine Civil War veteran; beloved mount of noted Civil War and frontier officer Gen. Andrew J. Alexander. Born during the antebellum years, "The Black Sluggard" served Union cavalry officer A.J. Alexander until 1864, when his master retired him, expressing the wish that his faithful charger "hear no more the cannon's roar and the bursting shell". The solid black horse was subsequently sent to "Willowbrook", an estate in New York's Fingerlakes region near Auburn, and home of Alexander's recent bride, the former Evelina Throop Martin. There Sluggard was rewarded for his service, grazing near the shore of scenic Lake Owasco for the remaining 13 years of his life. When the old warhorse died in 1877, he was buried near the estate's "Lower House", and a marble stone was placed on the gravesite. Coincidentally, the year 1877 also marked the transfer of the remains of Captain Myles Keogh of Little Big Horn fame from the battlefield in Montana to the Throop-Martin plot in Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn. Keogh, an intimate friend of Gen. Alexander and the Willowbrook family, by that time had captured the public imagination as the rider of "Comanche", the 7th Cavalry horse that had famously survived the battle. The two burials eventually became confused in the minds of many local residents, leading some to believe that the horse's grave at Willowbrook was that of Comanche; rumors also spread that Keogh's celebrated mount had been buried with him in Fort Hill. Comanche outlived Sluggard by 14 years, however, and his preserved remains are on permanent display in Lawrence, Kansas. Sluggard's marker was reportedly still to be seen at Willowbrook when the Martin family sold the estate in 1951, but it may have been destroyed when the buildings on the property were later razed. A luxury home development called "Martin's Point" occupies the site today, now in the town of Owasco.