Among the Sterling Youth

An Indiana farm boy desires only to claim his corner of the family farm where he plans to build a cabin and tend his own fields, but news of the war reaches Greene County in April 1861 and the governor calls for volunteers. He passes on the roll call because he is needed on the farm.However, as the summer ends, rumors of heightened conflict reach Indiana and his best friends pressure him to volunteer. He is reluctant to leave his farm, but he is taken by patriotic fervor and joins the war.Assigned to the Forty-third Infantry, he campaigns along the Mississippi River in what is called the Trans-Mississippi Campaign of the American Civil War. The river carries him farther away from his farm and the dangers of war threaten to take away more than his plans.Please visit http://www.AmongTheSterlingYouth.com