Caught up in the same patriotic war fever as everyone else, his brother George had volunteered to help supervise the loading of soldiers onto the trains. In a freak accident, he was hit by a train car and injured in the leg. Although the injury did not seem serious at first, it gradually resulted in paralysis of his entire right leg. Over the next two years, he would slowly decline. Charles spent some days with George and the rest of his family. “I cannot think of any invalid without turning to my brother George, whose case is the worst of all,”
