Jersey Blue: Civil War Politics in New Jersey, 1854-1865This political history of New Jersey during the Civil War and the years immediately before and after invites us to rethink New Jersey's role and in particular its relationship to the border states. William Gillette argues that there is little evidence supporting the idea that New Jersey's residents were pro southern before the war, or even antiwar during it, although attitudes toward the abolition of slavery were more ambivalent. The perspectives