Upon the Tented Field: An Historical Account of the Civil War as Told by the Men Who Fought and Gave Their Lives

This work chronicles one of the Union army's best fighting units--the 14th NJ Volunteers, 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac--through the personal accounts of six of its members. Using actual correspondence written by the soldiers between 1862 & 1865, the book details the human element of the war from the tragedy of suffering & loss to the dedication & determination of the army's volunteers. As James McPherson, noted Civil War author & Pulitzer Prize winner writes in the book's foreword: "Many collections of Civil War soldiers' letters have been published. Of all such collections I have read, UPON THE TENTED FIELD, is one of the best, providing a gripping narrative of the 14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry." The unit saw action at Locust Grove, near Culpepper, Va., & in other battles including the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Monacacy, Sheridan's Shenandoah Campaign, & Appomattox. As McPherson also writes in his foreword: "The real war was experienced every day by those who fought it & by the families of the one-fifth of the soldiers who never came home. These letters therefore, written during the immediacy of their experience by most of the 3 million men who fought in the Civil War came as close as we will ever come to the story of the 'real war'." Available through Koen or Quality Books or direct from Historic Projects, Inc., 65 Mechanic St., Red Bank, NJ 07701. (908) 758-8284.Upon the Tented Field: An Historical Account of the Civil War as Told by the Men Who Fought and Gave Their Lives, with ISBN 9780963872906 and ISBN 0963872907.