In the summer of 1862, the Civil War had been a reality in the United States for about a year. Due to the lack of news sources in those days, citizens were not well informed about battles and skirmishes going on around them. They relied on newspapers and word of mouth coming through the stagecoach lines, railways or by telegraph. Unfortunately, Kirksville did not have the latter two sources in 1862. Perhaps the locals had heard of the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas in March 1862, but little did they know that one of the major officers in that battle, Major General Sterling Price, would soon send a man to northern Missouri to recruit young men for the Confederate Army.
Abe Porter served his country as a lieutenant colonel in the US Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1946. At 100 years of age, his only significant ailment is bad
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