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 Dan Masters 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 about a piece of a recently preserved property near the Crampton's Gap Battlefield in Maryland.

I read Bacons letters and note from Dans post about Bacon, almost verbatim, in this episode with Dans blessing of course. Links to Dan and Johns blog and The Antietam And Beyond Podcast.

Dan Masters' Civil War Chronicles-

https://dan-masters-civil-war.blogspot.com/2022/08/more-in-wind-than-we-bargained-for.html?m=1&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1sFHEhl2TTu-4o5qi0664IfX0MN7EynuQxAZnIDrnV3csQcHtyC_EpJuM_aem_Wwh6mzRMLekIYiLK0b0TFA

The Antietam and Beyond Podcast

https://open.spotify.com/show/6UZnqRfhNHKdyR5Rl4pXM5?si=JXOrVGRbTmedMJC2EanxyQ

John Banks' Civil War Blog-

https://john-banks.blogspot.com/?m=1

No Pollution of Cowardice! -South Jersey in the Civil WarExplicit

by Dan Casella

Podcast episodes 1 of 5

Podcast episodes
1 of 5