"True Jersey blues" the Civil War letters of Lucien A. Voorhees and William Mackenzie Thompson, 15th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mazzagetti, Dominick A.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Imprint:	Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
Subjects:	Voorhees, Lucien A., > -1864 > Correspondence. Thompson, William McKenzie, > -1864 > Correspondence. United States. > Army. > New Jersey Infantry Regiment, 15th (1862-1865) Soldiers > New Jersey > Hunterdon County > Correspondence. New Jersey > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories. Hunterdon County (N.J.) > Biography. New Jersey > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
Online Access:	Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete.

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Summary:	This book tells the story of two Civil War soldiers from Hunterdon County serving with the Army of the Potomac through letters written to hometown newspapers. Their vivid accounts of life on the march, fierce firefights, and everyday occupations convey a true sense of the Civil War as experienced by the men enlisted to fight. The letters from cover the period from the muster of the 15th Regiment at Flemington (August 1862) through the combat deaths of both writers at Spotsylvania (May 1864).
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 241) and indexes.
ISBN:	9781283054805 (online) 9781611470031 (online)

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