Yours for the Union: The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light Artillery (The North’s Civil War)

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Yours for the Union is a choice of letters that takes us throughout 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 once truly like for the men who fought it.
Chase was once a 36 year-old cabinetmaker from Roxbury, a widower with four young children when he enlisted as a private within the First Massachusetts Light Artillery. These well written letters portray a man who is making an attempt to supply for his children, handle his finances, obtain food and clothing to supplement his meager rations, all Whilst marching within the mud and fighting a war. Whilst he was once a patriotic Northerner, his infrequently crude language reflects his strong opinion of abolitionists, and especially, of abolitionist politicians.

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