From the Back Cover
Readers will learn of the remarkable valor of New Jersey soldiers such as John Beech, a Trenton potter who won a Medal of Honor for bravery at Spotsylvania's Bloody Angle. They will learn too of the sacrifices made by civilians, such as Cornelia Hancock of Salem County, who ministered to soldiers wounded on battlefields. Siegel also tells of other people and institutions that played very different roles in the war, including the state's leading Copperhead newspapers, which denounced the draft and discouraged enlistments. Siegel allows them all-enlisted men and officers, patriots and conspirators-to speak, in moving firsthand accounts. Their emotions and deeds are chronicled in this collection of documents, many of which have been out of print for years.
