New PDF release: 'True Jersey Blues': The Civil War Letters of Lucien A.

By Dominick Mazzagetti

ISBN-10: 1611470021

ISBN-13: 9781611470024

Lucien A. Voorhees and William Mackenzie Thompson left Flemington, New Jersey, in excessive spirits in September 1862 as enlisted males within the fifteenth New Jersey Regiment to affix the struggle for the Union. They anticipated to do their accountability and go back domestic successful in brief order. at the march South Voorhees and Thompson every one begun a correspondence with the neighborhood newspapers again domestic to explain their actions as infantrymen within the military of the Potomac. inside simply weeks in their departure from domestic they got here nose to nose with the realities of struggle on the conflict of Fredericksburg. those younger males proved to be nice writers in addition to patriots. Their letters, brief or lengthy, express their emotions and the occasions they witnessed in brilliant and colourful language. They quickly came upon that their provider could call for nice sacrifice. 'True Jersey Blues' offers Voorhees' and Thompson's vibrant bills of existence at the march, fierce firefights, and daily occupations express a real experience of the Civil battle as skilled by means of the boys enlisted to struggle. The letters from Voorhees and Thompson conceal the interval from the muster of the fifteenth Regiment at Flemington (August 1862) during the wrestle deaths of either writers at Spotsylvania (May 1864). the warriors inform the tale of 2 failed Federal attacks on Fredericksburg, a race to Gettysburg, the next chase after the military of Northern Virginia, court-martials, executions, a costume parade for President Lincoln, wood responsibility, 'contrabands' (escaped slaves) entering the Union strains, and the actions contrived to maintain themselves busy in iciness camp. those males by no means misplaced their religion within the reason they have been scuffling with for or their love of domestic. Their pens went silent at Spotsylvania within the spring of 1864 the place they sacrificed their lives for the reason they believed in. the following, Voorhees and Thompson inform their tale of the Civil warfare and their struggle for victory.

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