“My Country Needs Me”: The Story of Corporal Johnston Hastings Shelly Jr. 87th Pennsylvania Infantry: A Don of Gettysburg and Confidant of Jennie Wade (Enrica D’Alessandro - DLM) Gettysburg photographs

“My Country Needs Me”: The Story of Corporal Johnston Hastings Shelly Jr. 87th Pennsylvania Infantry: A Don of Gettysburg and Confidant of Jennie Wade (Enrica D’Alessandro - DLM) Gettysburg photographsby Enrica D'Alessandro This book has 5 previously unpublished letters from Jennie Wade to Jack Skelly. The first book is about Jennie Wade's beau, Jack Skelly. At the age of 20, Jack Skelly, a Gettysburg civilian, said to his mother, My country needs me, Mother. May I go? He left his home to volunteer in the Union army from April of 1861 until June 1863. He initially served in the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry before joining the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry

more than a match for his colonial counterpart

Rosecrans worried the North would “overlook so great an event because it is not written in letters of blood”—and history proved him right

America Joan

the horrors of warfare

Over the course of the day

But Lincoln and Douglass believed in their nation’s greatness

each string doll has his or her own special power that is always positive and helpful

Readers will rejoice that Richard J

That Lincoln succeeded

which had its brilliant beginning in the American Civil War

the bloody fight at Germantown proved that Continental soldiers could stand toe-to-toe with British Regulars

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