While My Country Is in Danger: The Life and Letters of Lieutenant Colonel Richard S. Thompson Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers - Hardcover
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Foreword by Chris Calkins This biography of Richard S. Thompson, taken from his letters and diaries written during the campaigns of the 12th New Jersey Volunteers, highlights the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (Bliss Barn and the defense of Cemetery Ridge), Petersburg, Bristoe Station, and Reams’ Station. It includes extensive genealogy of the Thompson, Learning, and other Cape May, NJ families, and indexes over 350 individual’s names, including many of Thompson’s comrades in arms. 229 pgs, 6"x9", hardcover, Illustrations, Maps, Index, Notes, pH neutral paper.
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While My Country Is in Danger: The Life and Letters of Lieutenant Colonel Richard S. Thompson Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers
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Edmonston Publishing, Hamilton, NY, 1994
ISBN 10: 0962239364
ISBN 13: 9780962239366
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First printing. Fine in ifne dust jacket. Hardcover. 229 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Richard Swain Thompson was born in Cape May Court House, New Jersey and was just 23 years old when Lincoln issued his first call for troops in nthe Civil War. Thompson first joined a Home Guard unit in Philadelphia where he had begun a law career but by August, 1862 had returned home to enlist as Captian of Company K, 12 New Jersey Vols to participate in its recruitment. He later rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel. His contemporary diary entries and letters to friends and family, as well as notes written in his later years, provide a picture of the experiences of a mid-level officer at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, in the Petersburh campaign, and Reams' Station (where he was seriously wounded). Artikel-Nr. E29376
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