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Title: Uncle Daniel's Story Of "Tom" Anderson
And Twenty Great Battles

Author: John McElroy

Release Date: March 25, 2010 [EBook #31769]

Language: English

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UNCLE DANIEL'S STORY

OF "TOM" ANDERSON

And

Twenty Great Battles.

By John McElroy

1886.

"UNCLE DANIEL" IS PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC. A TRUTHFUL
PICTURE, IN STORY, BASED UPON EVENTS OF THE LATE WAR. THIS
VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO THE UNION SOLDIERS AND THEIR
CHILDREN.

The Author

New York, Jan. 1st, 1886.

UNCLE DANIEL'S STORY.

CHAPTER I.

DARK DAYS OF 1861.--A FATHER WHO GAVE HIS CHILDREN TO THE
COUNTRY.--RALLYING TO THE FLAG.--RAISING VOLUNTEERS IN
SOUTHERN INDIANA.

"The more solitary, the more friendless, the more
unsustained I am, the more I will respect and rely upon
myself."--Charlotte Bronte

ALLENTOWN is a beautiful little city of 10,000 inhabitants, situated on
the Wabash River, in Vigo County, Ind., in the vicinity of which several
railroads now center. It is noted for its elevated position, general
healthfulness, and for its beautiful residences and cultivated society.
Daniel Lyon located here in 1850. He was a man of marked ability
and undoubted integrity; was six feet two inches in height, well
proportioned, and of very commanding and martial appearance. In 1861,
he was surrounded by a large family, seven grown sons--James, David,
Jackson, Peter, Stephen, Henry and Harvey--all of whom were well
educated, fond of field sports and inclined to a military life. The
mother, "Aunt Sarah," as she was commonly called by the neighbors, was
a charming, motherly, Christian woman, whose heart and soul seemed to be
wrapped up in the welfare of her family. She was of short, thick build,
but rather handsome, with dark brown hair and large blue eyes, gentle
and kind. Her politeness and generosity were proverbial. She thought
each of her seven sons a model man; her loving remarks about them w