CHAPTER III
I have no information relating to my father's early life. I know he enlisted at the age of sixteen in Anderson, Indiana, in the thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry, which was popularly named the Morton Rifles, because Governor Morton of Indiana had contributed much time and money toward the recruiting, equipping and training of the regiment.
Dad's early experiences after his enlistment were not good. His regiment wintered their first winter in northern Kentucky and lived in tents. It was an extremely cold winter and there were no provisions for heating the tent's during the frigid weather. They improvised by building fires on the ground and kept them burning all day.
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