Officer

Located in the Paddle Wheel Boat

Ja, isn’t it terrible about Lincoln? To shoot a president I never would have believed. That’s something not for America, but for the Old Country, ja?

I am just seven years here from Pomerania. My father a farmer is. There was nothing for us in the Old Country so here we come. Then came the war. Not our war, it was. Not our war. My father made me and my brother Klaus go for the bounty money – three hundred dollars each – enough for good land to buy for the family. 

My father was a soldier before and soon good at soldiering I was. A private and then a sergeant, I was, because of my little schooling and English, and at Vicksburg, the lieutenant was killed and an officer I became.

Now all because of the war, a colonel I go home, and my family has a land section too.