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Harrisons first day away from home he is out training to become a soldier at camp Anderson in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
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A.A Harrison gets tuberculosis because of unsanitary camps. (No cure found during the war, if you got it you had it for the rest of your life).
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The camp was attacked.
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Some soldiers would be assigned to walk around the town to guard, look for intoxicated men, and for soldiers out of uniform. A.A Harrison gets paid $18 every month for his service doing this.
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He gets a promotion for his good service and by this point is now getting paid $21 a month.
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First fight near Corinth about 100 miles from Nashville Tennesse. A.A lost 15 to 20 thousand men, the south lost about 40 thousand men.
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At the camp two docters and the Colonel were arrested because they were drinking on the job. A.A couldnt get the medication he needed to try to keep healty and keep fighting.
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He's wife had a baby on April 19 then it died 10 days later on April 29.
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While patroling around to keep guard of the camp, the soldiers were ambushed.
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He fought in this fight.
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The fight of Murfreesboro is also known as the battle of Stoney River in Tennesse.
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A.A was discharged because he was sick with an illness that will be with him all his life.
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He died in his sleep of old age.
