![]() ![]() ![]() The grandmother remembered the Civil War, when she had been a strong sympathizer with the Confederate States of America. He was a thin bony youth, four years out of high school, just turned 21.Īll this was preliminary to taking the train down to Grandview, Missouri, a few miles south of the metropolis, walking a mile into the country from the station and presenting himself to Uncle Harrison Young, for whom he had been named, and to the family matriarch, Grandmother Harriet Louisa Young, nearly ninety years old. ![]() He stood for one of the pictures in uniform, sat for another, with and without hat. He presented himself to a Kansas City photographer's studio where he had his picture taken in civilian clothes, and then the photographer took him in his new uniform, a beautiful blue affair with red stripes along the trouser legs and red piping on the cuffs, brass buttons down the tunic, a red fourragere hanging from the right shoulder, and a big ornate hat. Truman, who was born in 1884, joined a light artillery battery in Kansas City in the summer of 1905, and at once got into hot water. ![]()
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