. Contemporary American biography . ng he learned something of geography and history, arithmetic and grammar; and at fourteen,having exhausted the curriculum, went to work in the village store at a salary of twenty-fourdollars a year, which was increased subsequently to sixty dollars; and afterward to one hun-dred and twenty dollars when it became a part of his duty to keep the books. The MexicanWar, then in progress, was the constant theme of conversation around him at this time, and sogreat became his military ardor that he would have enlisted could a boy of his age have doneso. As it was, h
. Contemporary American biography . ng he learned something of geography and history, arithmetic and grammar; and at fourteen,having exhausted the curriculum, went to work in the village store at a salary of twenty-fourdollars a year, which was increased subsequently to sixty dollars; and afterward to one hun-dred and twenty dollars when it became a part of his duty to keep the books. The MexicanWar, then in progress, was the constant theme of conversation around him at this time, and sogreat became his military ardor that he would have enlisted could a boy of his age have doneso. As it was, he found a vent for his martial instincts in forming and drilling a company ofboys and in reading works on history and biography containing accounts of military heroesand deeds of valor. One day he learned that the favored lad last sent from his district toWest Point had failed to pass the examinations. As if moved by inspiration he wrote at onceto the local Congressman, Hon. Thomas Eitchie, who had a slight knowledge of him through.
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