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More In The Wind Than We Bargained For - Charles Bacon & The Seven Days Battle
Chalres Bacon a member The 3rd New Jersey, Company F "The Cumberland Grays" wrote several letters to The West Jersey Pioneer, a newspaper out of Bridgeton, during his service on the Virginia Peninsula in the spring and early Summer of 1862.
The prewar photo of Bacon used for this episode was published in the book Historic Days of Cumberland County and can be found on Archive.org
Back in 2022 Author and Historian John Banks wrote an article for his blog composed two of Bacons published letters together for a post that happen to coincide with another Blog post by Author and Historian John Banks…
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