Yours for the Union: The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light ArtilleryYours 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. |
Contents
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George Chase | 32 |
Envelope of January 2 1862 | 44 |
Ben Winslow and John Chase | 49 |
Quaker Guns | 90 |
Co F 114th Pennsylvania Zouaves detail | 92 |
CSA Stamp | 94 |
Letter of May 30 1862The Spy | 98 |
Envelope of May 30 1862 | 101 |
Maryland | 139 |
Fredericksburg | 167 |
Chancellorsville to Gettysburg | 233 |
General William B Franklin | 53 |
Thomas and Mary Leavitt Marston | 57 |
Relic from Fairfax Court House | 70 |
Artillery by Edwin Forbes | 75 |
Letter of April 15 1862 | 77 |
John Chases Travel Routes in Chapter 2 | 80 |
The Peninsula Campaign | 81 |
Letter of April 20 1862 | 83 |
Envelope of April 27 1862 | 85 |
Letter of April 27 1862 | 86 |
Detail from Letter of May 3 1862 | 88 |
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Yours for the Union: The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First ... John Webster Chase No preview available - 2004 |