He resigned in 1857, taught engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri for a time, and when war came Reynolds accepted a colonel's commission and commanded Indiana's Camp Morton, the wartime state's militia muster encampment at Indianapolis.
He resigned in 1857, taught engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri for a time, and when war came Reynolds accepted a colonel's commission and commanded Indiana's Camp Morton at Indianapolis. Indiana's Camp Morton was the wartime state's militia muster encampment.