New Jersey Goes to War


In commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the New Jersey Civil War 150th Anniversary Committee has compiled brief biographies of 150 New Jerseyans of the era, famous and obscure, whose lives were affected by the conflict and events surrounding it. 

A representative sampling, these are the stories of soldiers and civilians, including heroes, scoundrels and ordinary folks just getting by. 

They are men and women of diverse races, religions and ethnic backgrounds - as well as one non-human. 

The selections include enlisted men, officers, nurses, politicians, diplomats, manufacturers, merchants, writers, poets and artists who were born in or immigrated to our state and lived here before, during or after the war. 

When faced with the most climatic event in American History, the people of New Jersey's Civil War generation became, whether they wished it or not, actors upon the historical stage rather than observers. 

Many of their lives were indisputably, in the oft-quoted words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, graphically "touched by fire," others less so, but all of them, for better or worse, would never be the same.

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