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There was once a man named Harry T. Walker. 

He was born on February 14, 1841. Harry was 

brought up in a very patriotic house, and 

when reached the age of 16, he left home to 

join the army. Of course, the age limit was 18 

for the army, but he and many of his friends 

lied to join. However, that is not where our 

story begins...

When he turned 18 

years old, he wanted 

to leave because army 

life was not as 

glamorous as he had 

anticipated. However, 

once hearing that he 

could receive three-

hundred dollars to re-

enlist in someone 

else's place, he 

reconsidered. 

In 1861, he heard about the Anaconda Plan, 

which was a blockade of Southern ports and 

going down the Mississippi River to split the 

South in two parts. This plan helped convinced 

him to reenlist. At this time, he also heard 

about Fort Sumter, which sealed the deal. The 

Confederate attack on Fort Sumter was based 

on the want for a sea port. It ended with the 

surrender of the Union Army, and a 

Confederate win. Harry then enlisted in the 

Union army. 

These events fired him up to 

re-enlist as a three-hundred 

dollar man. He put an 

advertisement up to see if 

anyone would be willing to 

pay him to take their spot. A 

few weeks later, he received a 

letter from a man named John 

D. Rockefeller offering him 

one-thousand dollars to take 

his spot. Harry, of course, 

being young, jumped at the 

chance to make money of any 

sort. 

Because Harry was an experienced, young, healthy, and 

muscular man, he was chosen to help patrol the seas on 

a warship as a weapons specialist. On the beautiful fall 

day of November 8th, he and his shipmates became 

skeptical of a British Mail Ship named the Trent. When 

they boarded the ship they found two confederate 

diplomats on board, whom they took hostage. This 

event became known as the Trent Affair. 

Since this became such a conflict between the 

British and the Union, Lincoln ordered General 

Grant to reassign the soldiers on board the 

warship. When Harry was reassigned, he 

became a patrol man in Kentucky. While there, 

he received a letter from his feeble mother. 

In this letter from his mother, she told him that 

his family had been questioned about what 

side of the war they were on, because of the 

Confiscation Acts ordered by Lincoln. Under 

these acts, if any supporters of the 

Confederacy were found on Union soil, all of 

their belongings could be taken. When they 

told the officials that both of their sons were in 

the Union Army, his family was pardoned. 

There began to be talk in Kentucky of the first 

Bull Run in July of 1861. So he and many others 

hurried to participate in the second Bull Run in 

August of 1862. Unfortunately Harry and the 

other Union Soldiers did not get a victory, but the 

Confederacy did. Later that year Harry received a 

letter informing him that his brother died in the 

battle of Fredericksburg as one of the soldiers 

under Joseph Hooker. His brother was killed by 

one of   Robert E. Lee’s soldiers, and Harry swore 

to himself he would seek revenge on Lee's 

troops. 

During the spring there was gossip of Lee's troops 

making their way to Gettysburg. With Harry's brother's 

death still on his mind he rushed to join the troops 

stationed there in Virginia. On July 2, 1864 Harry 

fought vigorously in Gettysburg only to come face to 

face in mortal combat with the one who had killed his 

brother, whom he defeated. Harry receive a broken 

elbow and collarbone and was sent to the Red Cross for 

care. 

At the Red Cross, he met Clara Barton, who 

introduced him to his future wife Mary Alice, 

who was assigned to care for him. While he was 

there, he heard that Stonewall Jackson died at 

the Battle of Chancellorsville. This battle was an 

important win by the Confederacy. Also while he 

was in the hospital, many Copperheads, people 

who wanted the fighting to stop immediately, 

protested outside of the hospital. 

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