The Sharpshooters: A History of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War

Recruited largely from socially conservative cities and villages in northern and central New Jersey, the Ninth Volunteer Infantry consisted of men with widely differing opinions about the Union and their enemy. EdwardG. Longacre unearths these complicated political and social views, tracing the history of this esteemed regiment before, during, and after the war from recruitment at Camp Olden to final operations in North Carolina.
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