uriah was a 21-year-old junior at yale university he could not wait to get into the war. he enlisted in a new york calvary regimen because there was not one ready yet. he dropped out of yale the junior year. he grew up on a farm in connecticut, grown up in -- made him unusual in the yun your an a army, grown up in an during abolitionist family. he wrote to his brother in the war, quote, i'm more an abolitionist than ever now, right up to the handle. if i had money enough to raise a few hundred contrabands, means escaped slaves, and arm them, i would get up an insurrection among the slaves.t." i told the captain i would desert to do it. that is bravado i suspect. he did not lead any mutiny that o we know of. -- organizers of a contraband to kept have an insurrection but letters kept flowing. and in 1861 and 1862 he denounces lincoln and the lincoln administration. he's impatient. he's angry that the war is not es officially a war to free the slaves. he does not get it. the thinks the war is caused by slavery, why not fight to free the slaves? he writes home in early 1862 i