"I am going to fight not for money, but for my country..."
Pottsville, PA native William H. Werner traveled to California as a teenager in the 1850s in search of riches. He was there when the Civil War broke out.
In a letter to his father in Schuylkill County, he detailed why he left a good job to fight for the Union.
Read the full letter.
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