He had served and sacrificed his life on US soil, far from his wife and five children at home in the British Isles. So we now know the Scottish father of a leader in the New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) died an alcoholic amid the horrors of the American Civil War. His burial site at Fort Craig was recently looted, which led to the official exhumation and reburial of bodies, Andrew’s remains possibly among them. ![]() When he died he was months short of completing ten years service in the Union Army. He was one of thousands of Scotsmen who served in overseas armies throughout the 19th century, motivated by a lust for adventure, sympathy for a cause, financial reward, a desire to emigrate or just to escape their lives at home. ![]() It had already been a long and difficult slog for Andrew.
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