Alonzo's war : letters from a young Civil War soldier / edited by Mary Searing O'Shaughnessy.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Arrival at Camp: August 1862 -- Trip to Washington, D.C.: August 1862 -- Near the Battle of Bull Run: September 1862-November 1862 -- March to Fredericksburg: November 1862 -- Arrival at Fredericksburg: November 1862-December 1862 -- Battle of Fredericksburg: December 1862 -- Winter quarters: January 1863-April 1863 -- Battle of Chancellorsville: May 1863 -- Establishing a hospital: May 1863-June 1863 -- Closing hospital: June 1863 -- Finding and rejoining their regiments: June 1863 -- Battle of Gettysburg: July 1863 -- Following Lee: July 1863 -- Battle of Wapping Heights: July 1863 -- Picket duty on Rappahannock: August 1863-September 1863 -- Culpepper, Virginia: September 1863-October 1863 -- Movements of the Second Division: October 1863-November 1863 -- Brandy Station: November 1863 -- Battles of Locust Grove and Mine Run: December 1863 -- Winter quarters: December 1863-April 1864 -- Battles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House: May 1864 -- Received sick furlough: May 1864 -- Reported back to Mansion House Hospital: July 1864-October 1864 -- Transfer to Fort Reno: October 1864-November 1864 -- Return from furlough home "to Vote" -- Battle of Fort Morton: November 1864-December 1864 -- Return to active duty at the front: December 1864-February 1865 -- Battle of Hatcher's Run: February 1865-March 1865 -- Camp near Burkesville: April 1865 -- March from Burkesville to near Alexandria: May 1865 -- Grand review of the Army of the Potomac: May 1865 -- Farewellsw: June 1865 -- Going home: June 1865 -- Last Column for The Morris Journal: April 1893.

"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."--Provided by publisher.