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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Collier, John S.,; Collier, Bonnie B.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The North's Civil War
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.) :; 108 Illustrations, black and white
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations and Credits --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Prologue --; Chapter 1. Alexandria --; Chapter 2. The Peninsula Campaign --; Chapter 3. Maryland --; Chapter 4. Fredericksburg --; Chapter 5. Chancellorsville to Gettysburg --; Chapter 6. Warrenton and Brandy Station --; Chapter 7. The Overland Campaign --; Chapter 8. The Shenandoah Valley --; Chapter 9. Petersburg --; Epilogue --; Appendix I. Obituaries --; Appendix II. Chronology --; Appendix III. Battery Organization --; Appendix IV. Asher Chase --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823293629; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823293629
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John S. Collier, Bonnie B. Collier.

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.