While My Country Is in Danger: The Life and Letters of Lieutenant Colonel Richard S. Thompson Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers

Gerry Harder Poriss and Ralph G. Poriss

ISBN 10: 0962239364 / ISBN 13: 9780962239366

Published by Edmonston Publishing, Hamilton, NY, 1994

About this Item

First printing. Fine in ifne dust jacket. Hardcover. 229 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Richard Swain Thompson was born in Cape May Court House, New Jersey and was just 23 years old when Lincoln issued his first call for troops in nthe Civil War. Thompson first joined a Home Guard unit in Philadelphia where he had begun a law career but by August, 1862 had returned home to enlist as Captian of Company K, 12 New Jersey Vols to participate in its recruitment. He later rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel. His contemporary diary entries and letters to friends and family, as well as notes written in his later years, provide a picture of the experiences of a mid-level officer at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, in the Petersburh campaign, and Reams' Station (where he was seriously wounded).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: While My Country Is in Danger: The Life and Letters of Lieutenant Colonel Richard S. Thompson Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers
• Publisher: Edmonston Publishing, Hamilton, NY
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0962239364
• ISBN 13: 9780962239366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Civil War

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Synopsis

Foreword by Chris Calkins This biography of Richard S. Thompson, taken from his letters and diaries written during the campaigns of the 12th New Jersey Volunteers, highlights the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (Bliss Barn and the defense of Cemetery Ridge), Petersburg, Bristoe Station, and Reams’ Station. It includes extensive genealogy of the Thompson, Learning, and other Cape May, NJ families, and indexes over 350 individual’s names, including many of Thompson’s comrades in arms. 229 pgs, 6"x9", hardcover, Illustrations, Maps, Index, Notes, pH neutral paper.