Alonzo&#039;s War

Mary Searing O&#039;Shaughnessy

doi:10.5771/9781611475555

Summary

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 some listings of death, wounding and sickness, opinions of the war, politics, religion, race, alcohol, deserters, camp conditions, hospital life, his own poetry and accounts of meetings with friends and relatives in nearby Army units.

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Copyright year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61147-554-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61147-555-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 248
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
Ch01. Arrival at Camp: August 1862 No access Pages 1 - 2
Ch02. Trip to Washington, D. C.: August 1862 No access Pages 3 - 4
Ch03. Near the Battle of Bull Run: September 1862–November 1862 No access Pages 5 - 22
Ch04. March to Fredericksburg: November 1862 No access Pages 23 - 28
Ch05. Arrival at Fredericksburg: November 1862–December 1862 No access Pages 29 - 32
Ch06. Battle of Fredericksburg: December 1862 No access Pages 33 - 36
Ch07. Winter Quarters: January 1863–April 1863 No access Pages 37 - 58
Ch08. Battle of Chancellorsville: May 1863 No access Pages 59 - 72
Ch09. Establishing a Hospital: May 1863–June 1863 No access Pages 73 - 76
Ch10. Closing Hospital: June 1863 No access Pages 77 - 78
Ch11. Finding and Rejoining Their Regiments: June 1863 No access Pages 79 - 80
Ch12. Battle of Gettysburg: July 1863 No access Pages 81 - 90
Ch13. Following Lee: July 1863 No access Pages 91 - 94
Ch14. Battle of Wapping Heights: July 1863 No access Pages 95 - 98
Ch15. Picket Duty on Rappahannock: August 1863–September 1863 No access Pages 99 - 106
Ch16. Culpepper, Virginia: September 1863–October 1863 No access Pages 107 - 112
Ch17. Movements of the Second Division: October 1863–November 1863 No access Pages 113 - 118
Photospread No access Pages C - D
Ch18. Brandy Station: November 1863 No access Pages 119 - 122
Ch19. Battles of Locust Grove and Mine Run: December 1863 No access Pages 123 - 128
Ch20. Winter Quarters: December 1863–April 1864 No access Pages 129 - 150
Ch21. Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House: May 1864 No access Pages 151 - 156
Ch22. Received Sick Furlough: May 1864 No access Pages 157 - 158
Ch23. Reported Back to Mansion House Hospital: July 1864–October 1864 No access Pages 159 - 170
Ch24. Transfer to Fort Reno: October 1864–November 1864 No access Pages 171 - 178
Ch25. Return from Furlough Home “to Vote”—Battle of Fort Morton: November 1864–December 1864 No access Pages 179 - 182
Ch26. Return to Active Duty at the Front: December 1864–February 1865 No access Pages 183 - 192
Ch27. Battle at Hatcher’s Run: February 1865–March 1865 No access Pages 193 - 204
Ch28. Battle for Petersburg: April 1865 No access Pages 205 - 210
Ch29. Camp near Burkesville: April 1865 No access Pages 211 - 218
Ch30. March from Burkesville to near Alexandria: May 1865 No access Pages 219 - 224
Ch31. Grand Review of the Army of the Potomac: May 1865 No access Pages 225 - 228
Ch32. Farewells: June 1865 No access Pages 229 - 232
Ch33. Going Home: June 1865 No access Pages 233 - 236
Ch34. Last Column for The Morris Journal: April 1893 No access Pages 237 - 238
Index No access Pages 239 - 246
About the Author No access Pages 247 - 248