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Beneath the Starry Flag: New Jersey in the Civil War

Beneath the Starry Flag: New Jersey in the Civil War

Siegel, Alan A.

Hardcover

Civil War Period (1850-1877)General United States History

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ISBN10: 0813529387
ISBN13: 9780813529387
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

Few events in American history can match the triumph and tragedy of the Civil War. Many books have been written about the War between the States, but until now, none has chronicled--in their own words--the many important roles played by people from New Jersey.

Beneath the Starry Flag is a collection of richly detailed eyewitness accounts by New Jerseyans who lived during the Civil War. Drawing from letters, journals, regimental histories, and newspaper accounts, Alan A. Siegel places the reader in the midst of these desperate times. The book depicts the war years chronologically, from the tense days when one state, then another seceded from the Union, through battles lost and won, to the victory at Appomattox and Lincoln's funeral procession across New Jersey.

Readers will learn of the remarkable valor of New Jersey soldiers such as John Beech, a Trenton potter who won a Medal of Honor for bravery at Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle. They will learn too of the sacrifices made by civilians, such as Cornelia Hancock of Salem County, who ministered to soldiers wounded on battlefields from Gettysburg to Petersburg. Siegel also tells of other people and institutions who played very different roles in the war, including Somerset County's Daniel Cory, who said he would shoot the president if he could, the state's leading Copperhead newspapers, which denounced the draft and discouraged enlistments, and the State Legislature, which at one point called for a truce and negotiations to end the conflict.

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