English, Charles L. The Bluecoats of Windsor and "Major Jed" of the Grays. [Windsor, NY]: Old Onaquaga Historical Society, 1968. First Edition. [8719]
Staple-bound with 23 mimeographed leaves, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, blue illustrated front, now dark at the edges. Original ink price on front crossed over with black marker. Good. Paperback.
A relatively scarce local production giving the history of Union soldiers from Windsor, NY, who fought during the American Civil War. Accounts of Company G, 89th Regiment and of Company, B, 137th Regiment, both being regiments of the New York Volunteers.
Also, of a Windsor native who became an officer in the Confederate Army, Jedidiah Hotchkiss (1828-1899). Hotchkiss was a school teacher and surveyor, in Virginia at the outbreak of the War, and commissioned a Captain in the Confederate Army, completing maps of Virginia for the general staff. He worked closely with "Stonewall" Jackson, Richard S. Ewell, Jubal A. Early, and Robert E. Lee. The Encyclopedia of Virginia credits Hotchkiss as being instrumental in the success Jackson's Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862.