![Disunion: A Gentle Giant Stays Behind](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sGVCbrj6glZQaNyjcfGBX-WY3rBiUTXCL201j3kLjocGJ4xu6aYmMHQw8KNTVjJvq2jTR7vOHvhQtB0loHGlb6OWJZn6kfu5foc1SaR2HVm0b4UEUSELJX_Ocj_nFqRDlA-AH4S9iG7M16jhsnUqU07Zw-flDeX2z2IOTJFBPZUwNXxtzPJYsNcS_-=s0-d)
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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