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

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.

Table of Contents

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