No Pollution of Cowardice! -South Jersey in the Civil War

How does a Battle fought in Tennessee by an Ohio Artillery Battery have a South Jersey connection? The answer is a Massachusetts Lawyer!

Listen in as Author Dan Masters and In talk about Captain Warren Parker Edgarton, Battery E, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, his actions at Stones River and his Post-War life in Newfield, New Jersey.

In Dans new book, Hell By The Acre, Edgarton in mentioned for his role in the opening part of the of the two day battle. To purchase a copy you can click on the link to the Savas Beatie website below!

https://www.savasbeatie.com/hell-by-the-acre-a-narrative-history-of-the-stones-river-campaign-november-1862-january-1863/

You can also follow Dans work on his Blog, Dan Masters Civil War Chronicles by clicking on the link below!

https://www.savasbeatie.com/hell-by-the-acre-a-narrative-history-of-the-stones-river-campaign-november-1862-january-1863/

Stones River National Battlefield wesite-

https://www.nps.gov/stri/index.htm

Sylvester Randolph writes to the West Jersey Pioneer about the "Holidays" while in the Army. Christmas Day was spent on the picket line and their feast was a goose boiled, with I would guess some Hardtack and bad cup of coffee, Click the link below to read the letter on the Library of congress' website!

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83032103/1862-01-11/ed-1/seq-2/

The list of names read in this episode is a continuation of an episode with the same name from 2023. I was able to find the original news paper digitized on the Library of Congress' website and can be seen in full by clicking the link below!

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83032103/1862-12-27/ed-1/seq-2/

Sergeant Sylvester W.F. Randolph, Company F of the 3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, writes a letter to the West Jersey Pioneer in September of 1861. In this letter, he writes about the men receiving their new Blue, Federal uniforms as well as brand new Springfield Rifled Muskets.

His photo can be found on Archive.org in the book, Historic Days of Cumberland County.

He is also mentioned by name in William Styples book, General Philip Kearny: A Very God of War,

More of Sylvesters letters were published in the West Jersey Pioneer, which have been put on microfilm and housed in the Lummis Library in Greenwich, New Jersey.

Private Charles Bacons final letter to the West Jersey Pioneer would be written on September 11th 1862 during the opening days of the Maryland Campaign. Bacon would be killed on September 14th at the Battle of Crampton's Gap but this letter would be published after the fact on September 27th in the same issue that would break the news of his death.

Private Charles Ogden of the 17th Illinois, writes his brother Robert back home in Cedarville, New Jersey shortly after the great Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee.

Chalres Bacon a member The 3rd New Jersey, Company F "The Cumberland Grays" wrote several letters to The West Jersey Pioneer, a newspaper out of Bridgeton, during his service on the Virginia Peninsula in the spring and early Summer of 1862.

The prewar photo of Bacon used for this episode was published in the book Historic Days of Cumberland County and can be found on Archive.org

Back in 2022 Author and Historian John Banks wrote an article for his blog composed two of Bacons published letters together for a post that happen to coincide with another Blog post by Author and Historian John Banks about a piece of a recently preserved property near the Crampton's Gap Battlefield in Maryland.

I read Bacons letters and note from Dans post about Bacon, almost verbatim, in this episode with Dans blessing of course. Links to Dan and Johns blog and The Antietam And Beyond Podcast.

Dan Masters' Civil War Chronicles-

https://dan-masters-civil-war.blogspot.com/2022/08/more-in-wind-than-we-bargained-for.html?m=1&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1sFHEhl2TTu-4o5qi0664IfX0MN7EynuQxAZnIDrnV3csQcHtyC_EpJuM_aem_Wwh6mzRMLekIYiLK0b0TFA

The Antietam and Beyond Podcast

https://open.spotify.com/show/6UZnqRfhNHKdyR5Rl4pXM5?si=JXOrVGRbTmedMJC2EanxyQ

John Banks' Civil War Blog-

https://john-banks.blogspot.com/?m=1

Sergeant John Ennis, Company F 5th New Jersey Volunteers recounts the Battle of Williamsburg fought on May 5th 1862.

John Lorence, a member of the 9th New Jersey Volunteers known as "The Muskrats" will be seriously wounded during the Battle of Roanoke Island, February 8th 1862. This poem about Lorence was originally published in Harpers Weekly shortly after the battle.

Allen R. Thompson, author of "In The Shadow of The Round Tops; Longstreets counter march, Johnstons reconnaissance and the enduring Battles for the memory of July 2, 1863" and I discuss a little bit about his new book coming in 2023