“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) christianson Contemporary concerns have distorted the

Contemporary concerns have distorted the reality of nineteenth-century Americans

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“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- DLM) christianson Contemporary concerns have distorted theby Enrica D'Alessandro This book has 5 previously unpublished letters from Jennie Wade to Jack Skelly.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