Cyrus Trask Timeline and Summary
MoreCyrus Trask Timeline and Summary
- Cyrus joins the army in 1862. Adam is born six months later.
- He comes home a few months later and one leg short.
- Not long after his wife's suicide, Cyrus snags Wife #2 (Alice) and has Charles.
- Cyrus starts to take the whole soldier thing really seriously. He eventually starts working for the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.).
- When Adam is around sixteen Cyrus makes him join the cavalry.
- Cyrus re-locates to Washington D.C.
- After Cyrus dies, Adam and Charles find out that he was worth one hundred thousand dollars. They suspect that he stole it from the G.A.R.