"Beneath the starry flag is a collection of eyewitness accounts by New Jerseyans who lived through the Civil War. The book depicts the war years chronologically, from the days when one state, then another seceded from the Union, to the victory at Appomattox and Lincoln's funeral procession across New Jersey"--Page 4 of cover.

Historians estimate some four hundred women disguised themselves as soldiers and fought during the American Civil War. Eighteen-year-old Charlotte Menefee joins the Union Army to be with her brother. At the battle of Gettysburg, Confederates threaten to break the Union line, and Charlotte must prove herself as brave a soldier as any man.

The experiences of the First Colorado Infantry in America's quest for empire at the end of the nineteenth century.