- Joined
- Dec 31, 2009
- Location
- Smack dab in the heart of Texas
I believe Forrest was briefly engaged in the US Army prior to the Civil War. Remember he was 40 when the war started. I don't have sources handy, but it should be easy enough to find. He had to earn enough money to pay for his transport back from Louisiana or the vicinity.
He was trying to get to either the Mexican War or the Texas Revolution? But got stranded around Houston or Galveston and had to either chop wood or dig ditches--something crummy--maybe build fence--to make enough money to get home. I keep thinking it was the Revolution. He would have been too old by the Mexican War and I'm pretty sure he was very young. Didn't he also get sick while he was there?