The American red squirrel is barely twice the size of a chipmunk and prefers pine forest and pine nuts as a dietary staple.
A true test of a good Brunswick stew is to gauge its thickness; a good Brunswick stew should be thick enough to allow a spoon to stand up straight.
The meat of the stew is usually chicken or pulled pork, but in lean times rabbit or even squirrel ... a recipe for "camp stew" in a cookbook from antebellum Georgia that's similar to the Brunswick ...