Dear Author:

[nightdog_barks]

I do not think this sentence conveys the information you think it conveys.

Two years later his older brothers started enlisting one after another in the Union Army to fight the Yankees, leaving only the three youngest -- Hiram, Absalom, and Frank, age eleven, nine, and seven -- to work the farm under their father for the duration of the war.

Bolding mine, for emphasis.

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[silverjackal]

:D Slipped by the author *and* the editor. What makes it so amusing to me is that I spotted it right away, and I don't know that much about U.S. history.

[nightdog_barks]

It's a slip-up the approximate size of a supernova. An elephant trying to hide behind a thimble.

*g*