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Excerpt from Raids and Romance of Morgan and His Men
Thus spoke Mr. R. To his eldest son Charles, a youth of nineteen years of age, as the two stood in consultation beneath a large elm tree in front of their dwelling, in Jefferson county, Kentucky, near the city of Louisville.
Charles R. Was the eldest of a family of six children - four boys and two girls. Charles, or Charley, as he was familiarly called by his family and friends, was a fine exponent of true Kentucky character; - noble, impulsive, brave; quick to perceive the right, ready to defend it.
When, on the 15th of April, 1861, the dread voice of war echoed and re-echoed throughout the land, rousing the millions from their peaceful pursuits into the wildest fury, fired with patriotic ardor, Charley besought his father to allow him to seize his gun and rush to the defence of the South. The father objected. His child was young, be was his eldest boy and greatly beloved; and, more over, amid the rapid rush of dread events, which had so convulsed the nation, Mr. R., in?uenced by his life-long love for the old Union, had not been able to decide satisfactorily to his own mind where the right rested.
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