All for the Union: The Saga of One Northern Family Fighting the Civil War – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780811770873,0811770877, 9780811770880, 0811770885

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0811770885
• ISBN-13: 9780811770880
• Author:  John A. Simpson
  

When the South bombarded Fort Sumter in April 1861, the Ellithorpe family in rural New York answered President Lincoln’s call to defend the Union. For the next four years, the two Ellithorpe brothers and two of their brothers-in-law fought in some of the Civil War’s most storied regiments, on nearly every major battlefield in the East. In this utterly unique Civil War history/biography, John A. Simpson reconstructs the intertwined lives and wars of four Union soldiers, from Bull Run to Gettysburg and beyond. When the Civil War broke out, Phillip Ellithorpe, Philander Ellithorpe, Asa Burleson, and Oliver Moore did not hesitate to volunteer to fight for the Union. Their service would encompass virtually every branch of the Northern army: infantry (including sharpshooters), cavalry (mounted and dismounted), and artillery as well as commissary, engineering, and ambulance duty.

Table contents:

PART I: Beginnings

Chapter 1: In Search of the Ellithorpes of Western New York

PART II: War

Chapter 2: Duty, Honor, Country: The Ellithorpe Brothers Prepare for War

Chapter 3: The Road to Bull Run

Chapter 4: Retooling the Army of the Potomac

Chapter 5: The Fight for Richmond: The Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days

Chapter 6: Watchful Waiting and Second Bull Run

Chapter 7: The Loss of Innocence in Maryland

Chapter 8: The Saddest Hour at Fredericksburg

Chapter 9: “I Have Seen Enough of This Unjust War”: The Ellithorpe Brothers and the Limits of Patriotism

Chapter 10: “Death before Dishonor”: Gettysburg

Chapter 11: In and Out of the Saddle: The Overland Campaign

PART III: Remembrance

Chapter 12: A Trunkful of Letters

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