On September 8, 1962, John H. Westervelt enlisted as a private into the 1st New York Volunteer Engineer Corps. That same year, he shipped out of New York on the Star of the Southto South Carolina to fight for the North in the Civil War. The following April, he began a journal for his 13-year-old son
A Yankee Private's Civil War
β Scribed by Robert Hale Strong, Ashley Halsey
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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