Early in 1865, I saw my name in print for the first time by writing a letter for publication in the Children's Friend , published at Dayton, Ohio, in which I made the statement, "I am a Union boy fourteen years old, and wish the war was over." After the war had continued a year and a half, with victories and defeats on both sides, the President, on the 22d of September, 1862, issued the provisional Emancipation Proclamation, which was to the effect that the South would be given from that time up to the first of January, 1863, to lay down their arms, keep their slaves, and find their proper places in the Union, otherwise a proclamation would be issued to set at liberty their slaves
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