On April 15th, 1861, a young man attending a rally at the Eagle Hotel at the corner of Main Street and Court Street in Batavia, heard Abraham Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers.When asked by an elder of the community, who will be the first volunteer, Charles Rand stepped forward and said, "I will. I will be the first."
A few years later, Rand started a campaign to recognize his claim to fame as the
First Union Volunteer of the Civil War.Listen to his story here
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