The Sharpshooters: A History of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War

by Edward G. Longacre

Recruited as sharpshooters and clothed in distinctive uniforms with green trim, the hand-picked regiment of the Ninth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry was renowned and admired far and wide. The only New Jersey regiment to reenlist for the duration of the Civil War at the close of its initial three-year term, the Ninth saw action in forty-two battles and engagements across three states. Throughout the South, the regiment broke up enemy camps and supply...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612348076
• ISBN13: 9781612348070
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.4"