On Oct. 25, 1865, Andrew Jackson Fisk wrote that his company was ordered to Fort Wadsworth, a prospect the men felt badly about, as though it meant going out of the world again, though he added that it was a soldier's duty to obey orders. Fisk was fourteen when he enlisted in the Second Minnesota Cavalry, Company A, and two years later he began serving as quartermaster sergeant at Fort Wadsworth, later named Fort Sisseton, where he recorded experiences as a soldier stationed at a prairie fort.