He acquired some land in the wilderness, where Andrew began farming and built a one-room sod house, in which all their children were born.
[1] When the Civil War broke out, two of John's older brothers volunteered for military service almost as soon as they heard the news.
[a] John joined the Union Army in 1864, when he served in General William Tecumseh Sherman’s "March to the Sea."
According to Thoburn, he carried his knapsack and rifle over 1,500 miles (2,400 km) in the march through Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia and surviving 13 battles and skirmishes.
((During this time, Seger was employed by the cattlemen to build a 300 miles (480 km) fence and to oversee a ranch near the present town of Colony.
So at the request of Indian agent Jesse Lee, in 1886, Seger led 120 Arapaho westward to establish the 'Seger Colony', an agricultural community on Cobb Creek (Oklahoma) in the western part of the territory.