The Rebel Without Claws is a 1961 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon short directed by Friz Freleng.
Although the American Civil War was not an unheard-of subject in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series, Rebel Without Claws is unusual in that it portrays the Confederate States Army in a sympathetic light while casting a negative focus on the Union and its Army.
The Confederates want to get an "important message" to General Robert E. Lee, but all the carrier pigeons have been shot down.
The Union soldiers learn of the Confederates' attempt and counter with their "Messenger Destroyer", who turns out to be none other than Sylvester.
He states that his only regret is that he has "but one wife to give foh my countwy" (paraphrasing Nathan Hale), to which Sylvester says that he has nine lives.