A Quaker Officer in the Civil War: Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609497514)

When the call went out in 1862 for volunteers for Delaware's 4th Infantry Regiment, a number of men from prominent Quaker families came forward to fight for the Union. Deeply patriotic and strongly opposed to slavery, they served with distinction in some of the later campaigns of the Civil War, from Cold Harbor through Appomattox. Among them was Henry Gawthrop. Commissioned a first lieutenant in Company F, he saw action during the Siege of Petersburg and at the Battle of Five Forks. Fifty years after the war, he drew on his diary and letters from the war years to create a unique memoir that is among the most comprehensive and detailed of any Delaware Civil War veteran. This is his story.

Author: Justin Carisio,Doug Bostick
ISBN-10: 1609497511
ISBN-13: 9781609497514
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2013
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d