Fighting for Slavery?

Drew

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Oct 22, 2012
“I do not know why I wanted to go to war, but when I was 14 I begged my father to let me go, and he said, “No,” and I had to wait a whole year and was afraid the war would be over before I got there. I hardly knew what the war was about, as my father was a Union man and I was not taught to be a secessionist.”
Pvt. Redding Andrews, born in Fayette County, TX, January, 1848, enlisted in the Confederate Army at Shreveport, LA, July, 1863 as Private in Company D, Gen. Willis’ Battalion.
Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, Mamie Yeary, 1912, pp. 22
 
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