TY  - BOOK
AU  - Collier,John S.
AU  - Collier,Bonnie B.
TI  - Yours for the Union: The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light Artillery 
T2  - The North's Civil War
SN  - 9780823223039
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Military / United States
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations and Credits --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Prologue --; Chapter 1. Alexandria --; Chapter 2. The Peninsula Campaign --; Chapter 3. Maryland --; Chapter 4. Fredericksburg --; Chapter 5. Chancellorsville to Gettysburg --; Chapter 6. Warrenton and Brandy Station --; Chapter 7. The Overland Campaign --; Chapter 8. The Shenandoah Valley --; Chapter 9. Petersburg --; Epilogue --; Appendix I. Obituaries --; Appendix II. Chronology --; Appendix III. Battery Organization --; Appendix IV. Asher Chase --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Yours for the Union is a collection of letters that takes us inside the life and mind of a Civil War soldier. John Chase's reports of his service with the Army of the Potomac, reveal what the war was really like for the men who fought it. Chase was a 36 year-old cabinetmaker from Roxbury, a widower with four young children when he enlisted as a private in the First Massachusetts Light Artillery. These well written letters portray a man who is trying to provide for his children, maintain his finances, obtain food and clothing to supplement his meager rations, all while marching in the mud and fighting a war. While he was a patriotic Northerner, his occasionally crude language reflects his strong opinion of abolitionists, and especially, of abolitionist politicians
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823293629
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823293629
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ER  -