Disunion: A Gentle Giant Stays Behind

In one regiment, the Ninth Vermont Infantry, the officers and men were indignant..... One of its members, a 19-year-old named Algernon Squier, served on temporary duty as an assistant hospital steward. A gentle giant at 6 feet, 4 inches tall, the toothy peacetime medical student had suspended his studies only five weeks earlier to join the Ninth.

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