BENEATH THE STARRY FLAG: New Jersey's Civil War Experience

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Chronicles the roles people from New Jersey played in the Civil War from eyewitness accounts. Depicts the war years chronologically, from the days when states seceded from the Union, to the victory at Appomattox, and Lincoln's funeral procession across New Jersey. Details the lives of soldiers such as John Beech; a Trenton potter who won a Medal of Honor for bravery at Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle; and civilians, such as Cornelia Hancock of Salem County, who ministered to soldiers wounded on battlefields. Tells of other people and institutions that played very different roles in the war, including the state's leading Copperhead newspapers, which denounced the draft and discouraged enlistments.