Yours for the Union: The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light Artillery by Collier, John S.

Yours for the Union: The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light Artillery (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780823223046)

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Yours for the Union: The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light Artillery by Collier, John S.

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

$39.00
Yours for the Union: The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light Artillery by Collier, John S.

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

$39.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: John S. Collier, Bonnie B. Collier
ISBN-10: 0823223043
ISBN-13: 9780823223046
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2010
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.84w x 1.19d
By John S. Collier
By John S. Collier
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John S. Collier, great-great grandson of John W. Chase, and Bonnie B. Collier are both retired and live in Maryland.

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