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In 1862 he was a young man of about 18 years of age. Like most of those who lived in his neighborhood, he sympathized with the South in the Civil War, which was at the time in progress. The Union forces occupied Palmyra, and had control of the district. Outrages were committed on both sides, and many indefensible deeds are recorded in the local histories of those sad times. Union soldiers were shot down from behind hedges, and Union men were driven away from their homes, and sometimes foully treated.