Albert Cashier

ID: 17 ~ Source: Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum via Wikimedia Commons ~ Creator: U.S. Army ~ Date: November 1864

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ID: Black and White photo of a white soldier with light eyes and dark hair wearing a blue Union uniform

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Albert Cashier – Immigrant, Civil War Soldier, Comrade-in-Arms

"Lots of boys enlisted under the wrong name. So did I. The country needed men, and I wanted excitement. I worked on an Illinois farm as a man the year before the war. I wasn't discovered and thought I'd try my luck in the service."~Albert Cashier,…