Robert Newton Gorsuch

A Private in the Union Army
                                                      By Dr. Peter L. Patton

            Before the Civil War started on April 12, 1861,  Robert Newton Gorsuch, then twenty-two years old, had enrolled as a student at Ohio Wesleyan College and was looking  forward to taking his first classes that fall.  But when President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion, Gorsuch put his collegiate plans on hold and in September, 1861, he volunteered for service as a private in the Union Army.

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