It was here I recollect the beginning |^f.,of the

It was here I recollect the beginning |^f.,of the war of 1861 to 1865. There was great excitement and I well remember &s.'~tbe meetings for signing of recruits to £rVlfo to the front. At these meetings -there was generally a martial band and i^ rmost stirring tunes were played. Many men walked up and signed their names who never returned to their families. ..Some wanted to sign and goto war who had large families and were poor and stay«d to help take care of families whose husbands west to the front. I '3eooltect when my father's neighbor ^signed father wanted to go but mothei clung to him and talked him out of the v. the notion. There were eight little -^children in our home to care for and mother thought the responsibility too