Biography
The son of Henry Hogan and Semantha Barnes, Cassius McDonald Barnes was born in Livingston County, New York on August 25, 1845. Barnes spent the first few years of his life in New York, but his parents later moved to Michigan. He attended both public school and the Wesleyan Church Seminary in Albion, Michigan.
In 1861, the American Civil War broke out, and Barnes, just 16 years old, joined the Union army as a volunteer soldier. His experience in telegraphy earned him a position in the Military Telegraph and Engineering Corps of the Union army. Barnes served for the duration of the war, spending a portion of his enlistment as the secretary to Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon. Barnes left the army at the age of 20 and moved to Little Rock, ArkansasDuring his time in Arkansas, he married Elizabeth Mary Bartlett of North Adams, Massachusetts, in Little Rock on June 4, 1868. His second marriage was to divorcee, Rebecca Cagle Forney, in Chicago in 1910.
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