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Post Company Quarters:
This was home for hundreds of soldiers garrisoned at Fort Union during Indian War years -- "old soldiers" who re-enlisted, immigrants fresh off the boat, fuzzy-cheeked farm boys, older men down on their luck, a scattering of criminals on the run -- perhaps an adventurous young lawyer or schoolteacher. Infantry private or cavalry trooper, military life meant low pay, hard work and strict discipline for them all. |