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<p>In 1861 at the age of eighteen, Edward Woolsey Bacon, a Yale student and son of well-known abolitionist minister Leonard Bacon, left his home in New Haven, Connecticut, to fight for the United States. Over the next four years Bacon served in both the Union navy and army, which gave him a sweeping view of the Civil War. His postings included being a captainâs clerk on the USS <i>Iroquois,</i> a hospital clerk in his hometown, a captain in the 29th Connecticut Infantry (Colored), and a major in the 117th U.S. Colored Infantry, and he described these experiences in vibrant letters to his friends and family. Historian George S. Burkhardt has compiled these letters, as well as Baconâs diary in the impressive <i>Double Duty in the Civil War: The Letters of Sailor and Soldier Edward W. Bacon</i>.</p><p>Bacon tells of hunting Confederate commerce raiders on the high seas, enduring the tedium of blockade duty, and taking part in riverine warfare on the Mississippi. He recalls sweating in South Carolina as an infantry officer during drill and picket duty, suffering constant danger in the battlefield trenches of Virginia, marching victoriously on fallen Richmond, and tolerating the bor
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- Author
- Edward W Bacon; George S Burkhardt
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780809386499
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
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