Civil War Service
At the age of eighteen Septimus Hanna enlisted in Company H, 138th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, which company was composed largely of boys of about his own age. He was unanimously elected its captain during the last year of the Civil War, to the time of its discharge.
Before he was mustered out of the Army, Hanna had decided to take up the study of law and the farm would know him no more. There were indications of more than one kind that he was destined for higher things than following the plow and feeding the herds
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