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The Man Who Built A Better Leg
Cricket Magazine for Kids
|July/August 2017
THE CIVIL WAR was only a few weeks old when seven hundred and fifty Confederate recruits gathered in the fields around Philippi, Virginia. It was early June 1861, and as yet there had been no real battles. The men had eagerly volunteered, but most had no training as soldiers. Their only weapons were the ones they brought from home— old-fashioned flintlock muskets, cap and ball pistols, and a few shotguns.
Among them was an eighteen-year-old college student named James Edward Hanger. When two of his older brothers signed up to fight for the South, James was determined to follow their example. His mother said she’d only allow her youngest boy to go to war if he joined the same company as his brothers. So James headed to the Confederate camp at Philippi to enlist.
The day after James arrived, word came that 4,500 Union troops were heading their way. There was a railroad near Philippi, and the Northern forces wanted it. James and the other recruits were excited by the news, but the Confederate colonel knew that his poorly equipped soldiers couldn’t stand against thousands. He ordered the recruits to be ready to abandon the camp at a moment’s notice.
As James and the other men prepared to move out, the afternoon grew dark. Lightning split the sky, and rain poured down. The colonel decided to delay their departure and move camp in the morning. He was convinced that there was no way Union soldiers would march all night through such a blinding downpour.
But the colonel was wrong. The enemy was coming!
James and a few others wanted a dry roof over their heads, so they took shelter in a barn for the night. James climbed into the hayloft and settled down to sleep. As he dozed, three columns of Northern forces slogged closer and closer.
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