Download or read book A Quaker Officer in the Civil War: Henry Gawthrop of the 4th Delaware written by Justin Carisio and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the call went out in 1862 for volunteers for Delaware's 4th Infantry Regiment, a number of men from prominent Quaker families came forward to fight for the Union. Deeply patriotic and strongly opposed to slavery, they served with distinction in some of the later campaigns of the Civil War, from Cold Harbor through Appomattox. Among them was Henry Gawthrop. Commissioned a first lieutenant in Company F, he saw action during the Siege of Petersburg and at the Battle of Five Forks. Fifty years after the war, he drew on his diary and letters from the war years to create a unique memoir that is among the most comprehensive and detailed of any Delaware Civil War veteran. This is his story.