A ggrandfather,age 32 with wife and 3 children, homesteading in WI also joined as a volunteer in the last year of civil war, I think it may have been due to the large bonus they were handing out to volunteers. Jane > > > > ------------------------------ > I found it curious that an emigrant from Pomerania, born in 1836, > would enlist at the age of 28 in the American Civil War in 1864, serve > honorably and be "mustered out" at Vicksburg, MS in 1865. > >