Alonzo's War
Letters from a Young Civil War Soldier
Alonzo Bryant Searing, a high school graduate aged 18, enlisted in the 11th New Jersey Volunteer Regiment in Dover, New Jersey in 1862 and served two years and ten months as a Private in the Union Army. His unit served in 27 engagements and he was slightly wounded twice. During that time he wrote 110 letters home to his sister. Twenty-five years later he edited these letters, adding information from his well-kept journals and his memory and had them published in The Morris County Journal newspaper from 1890-1893. The book is this collection of letters, written with a dry humor, which includes graphic descriptions of engagements, including som…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61147-555-5
- EAN: 9781611475555
- Produktnummer: 22070641
- Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 9'474 KB
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