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| | Boys In The Civil War |
 | | T.G. Bean, of Pickensville, Alabama, was probably the wars most youthful recruiter. |
 | | He organized two companies at the University of Alabama in 1861, when he was thirteen, though he did not get into service until two years later, when he served as adjutant of the cadet corps taken into the Confederate armies. |
 | | M.W. Jewett, of Ivanhoe, Virginia, is said to have been a private in the 59th Virginia at thirteen, serving at Charleston, South Carolina, in Florida, and at the siege of Petersburg. |
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