Sacrifice All for the Union: The Civil War Experiences of Captain John Valley Young and his Family 9781735073927

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Автор: Hatfield Philip
Название: Sacrifice All for the Union: The Civil War Experiences of Captain John Valley Young and his Family
ISBN: 9781735073927
Классификация: ISBN-10: 173507392X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 330
Вес: 0.79 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 254 x 178 x 19
Поставляется из: США
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The story of Captain John Valley Young personifies the body of rugged Union Army volunteers from West Virginia during the Civil War: highly resilient, stubbornly independent, and fiercely patriotic. Using Captain Youngs wartime letters to his wife, Paulina Franklin Young, and his daughters, Sarah and Emily Young, along with his diary and numerous other original soldier accounts, this book reveals the experiences of a Union soldier and his family who were truly willing to Sacrifice All for the Union.

Young, a farmer and Methodist-Episcopalian minister prior to the Civil War, during April 1861 raised a company of Union volunteers at the strongly pro-Southern village of Coalsmouth, Virginia, (modern St. Albans, West Virginia). He was adamantly opposed to slavery, yet often expressed a bitter ire at having to fight a violent civil war because his beloved nation had thus far failed to eradicate the awful practice. His company became Company G of the 13th West Virginia Infantry and was later transferred to the 11th West Virginia Infantry.

While he displayed an unshakeable desire to preserve the Union, Youngs convictions were severely tested as he and his family faced constant dangers from guerillas and Confederate raids in the Kanawha Valley. Captain Young also participated in more than one hundred skirmishes and eleven major engagements in the bloody Shenandoah Valley, and at Petersburg, and Appomattox; more than any other Union officer from West Virginia. He died from tuberculosis in 1867, a sad irony after surviving some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.

...Stand firm to the good old Cause. I have just come from Charleston, and found while there that there will be a change of Commanders in the Department of West] Virginia. The authorities feel determined that we shall have protection. But if we cannot have better protection than we have had, the country is ruined. But I assure you there will be a change for the better. I dont know how you will get up to see me now. Well, we must bear it the best we can. Sacrifice All for the Union. - Captain John Valley Young, Letter to his wife, February 3, 1862

Sacrifice All for the Union: The Civil War Experiences of Captain John Valley Young and his Family, Hatfield Philip