Augustus Hesse chronicled the 9th Massachusetts Battery’s desperate struggle. “I have taken up Arms to defennt the wright of the U.S. of America….I am ready to give my life away for liberty.” So wrote 30-year-old German-born farmer Augustus Hesse shortly after he volunteered for military service in August 1862. The following excerpts come from letters …
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