Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 255, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1914 — War is Fought By Boys. [ARTICLE]

War is Fought By Boys.

That war is fought by boys is a familiar truth that we often forget. But the records of our own civil war prove it overwhelmingly. The department rolls show that in th egreat rebellion there were enlisted in the army of the north 2,778,309 men, and of these 25 were 10 years old and younger, 225 were 12 years and- under, 1,523 were 14 years and under, 844,891 were 16 years and under, 1,151,438 were 18 years and under, a 2,159,798 were 21 and under and 618,511 were 22 years and over. Thus the average of the whole army was 19.7 years. When war thus takes away the young manhood of the country, who can estimate its cost?