title: For Duty and Destiny: The Life and Civil War Diary of William Taylor Stott, Hoosier Soldier and Educator
author: Lloyd A. Hunter
description: Lloyd A. Hunter is Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Franklin College, where he founded and directed the American Studies Program and occupied the Roger D. Branigin Chair of History. Hunter received recognition by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) as the 2003 Outstanding Indiana Professor of the Year.
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  CAPT. RICHARD H. RYDER.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1890, by RICHARD H. RYDER,
  
  
  in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
  
  
  DEDICATED
  
  
  TO
  
  
  THE MEMORY
  
  
  OF
  
  
  THE BRAVE AND NOBLE SOLDIERS
  
  
  ok 1861-65
  
  
  OF MY NATIVE VILLAGE, CANARSIE,
  
  
  And my Brave,
  
  
  ASSOCIATES OF THE LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.
  
  
  January, 1890. RICHARD H. RYDER.
  
  
  PREFACE.
  
  
  I have headed my first little story "The Village Color-Bearer," as in the
  capacity of Color-Bearer my young heart bounded with patriotism to such an
  extent that it is with pride I look back upon those dark days ('61 -'65). My
  second story I have dedicated to t