Yours for the Union - The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light

Informationen zum Autor John S. Collier, great-great grandson of John W. Chase, and Bonnie B. Collier are both retired and live in Maryland. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A revealing collection of letters that takes us inside the life and mind of a Civil War soldier. John W. Chase's 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.

Product details

• Authors: John W. Chase, John W./ Collier Chase, Bonnie B. Collier, John S. Collier, John S. Collier Collier, COLLIER JOHN S COLLIER BONNIE B
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2004
• EAN: 9780823223039
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-2303-9
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Series: The North's Civil War; North's Civil War (Hardcover); North's Civil War
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration