text:  Entirely deprived of the affections of a father whom he never remembered to have seen and on whom with the usual levity of boyhood he seldom or never bestowed a passing thought Gerald Clynton or Gerald Lyle as he was constantly called after his uncle--and most people knew not that he bore any other name--naturally imbibed the opinions and sentiments of his protector; and when the civil war was openly declared followed him to the camp