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 Joh ...