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How Did Charley Join The Army
Charley lived in Winona, Minnesota. Charley seen all of the girls faint over meetings about the war. Charley thought it would be better than a circus or what he thought a circus might be like. Charley was happy. Charley was 15 and you had to be 18 to join the Army. Charley wanted to join the war mainly because he wanted to experience a shooting war that would only once in a man’s life and he didn't want to miss it. Charley knew that Minnesota was forming a volunteer regiment. Nearly a thousand men were there. Charley lied about his age saying that he was 18 to get into the army. When Charley joined the army, he liked it at first, being in a shooting that comes once in a man’s life. the first thing Charkey told his ma about being a soldier was
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