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Peter T. Lubrecht-3rd New Jersey Cavalry

Author and Presenter

Dr. Peter Lubrecht’s latest book and dynamic presentations are committed to making History come alive! Hear about the crazy family surrounding Lincoln’s assassin, and about Lincoln’s regular theater attendance and his attachment to the works of William Shakespeare; Watch the operetta Cavaliers of the Third New Jersey Cavalry turn into effective soldiers who helped end the Civil War. Follow an Elizabethan Actor from sunrise to the stage. Hear all the gossip about William Shakespeare and his cronies.

About the book: New Jersey Butterfly Boys in the Civil War The Hussars of the Union Army: (Available signed by the author 19.99 + postage)

In the last year of the Civil War, the Union formed a traditional European cavalry unit known as the New Jersey Butterflies. They enticed men to join a galloping, dashing, romantic cavalry unit that would charge its enemy armed only with sabers.,the unit fought in decisive battles with General George Armstrong Custer and General Philip Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, Many of them German and Irish immigrants, these “Jersey” men lie buried in their native soil from one end of the state to the other. Author Peter T. Lubrecht traces their histories, providing detailed information on their lives before, during and after the war.