Boy Martyr

[saintedwyn]

Watching a special on the History Channel about "The States". They get to Arkansas. First, there's a funny joke

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[mycroftholmes]

Very good points, and here's one more - he was seventeen. Plenty of seventeen and sixteen year old boys lied about their age to join the armies of both sides, and chances are a good number of them died in battle. Hell. By the end of the war, there were twelve year old boys fighting in the confederate army.