Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Colonel Charles A. Zollinger: Seven-Time Mayor of Fort Wayne
At the age of seventeen, he left home and traveled to Minne sota where he remained about four years. His occupation in the North Star state is unknown; but when he returned to Fort Wayne in 1859, hehad decided to learn the trade of a blacksmith. Apprenticed to Colonel J. W. Whitaker in New Haven, Indiana, he worked hard at learning his chosen trade until the outbreak of the Civil War. On April 12, 1861, the Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor and precipitated the four-year con flict between the North and South. President Lincoln immediately called for volunteers to serve three months; a month later, the President called for volunteers to serve three years or more. Drafting men for military service was not practiced in the United States until March 3, 1863. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
