| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 101.4

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The Civil War Letters of Colonel Charles F. Johnson, Invalid Corps

Edited with an introduction by Fred Pelka

(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 339. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Clothbound, $80.00; paperbound, $29.95.)

The service of the Invalid Corps, later called the Veterans Reserve Corps (VRC), in the United States Army in the Civil War has received little attention from scholars. Editor Fred Pelka, who identifies himself as a "disability rights activist," has endeavored to rectify this omission by preparing an edition of interesting letters by a prominent officer in the Corps, Colonel Charles F. Johnson. An engraver and Philadelphia "Chestnut Street clerk" before the rebellion, Johnson volunteered initially as Lt. Colonel of the 36th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment (later re-numbered the 81st) in the summer of 1861. His Regiment first saw action in the Peninsular Campaign of the Army of the Potomac in the spring of 1862, where Johnson assumed the colonelcy of the regiment. In late June, Johnson received gunshot wounds in both legs and the testicles. After only a few weeks of recuperation, he attempted to return to his command, but his body broke down from his unhealed wounds, and he was discharged on a surgeon's certificate of disability in November 1862.

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