A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections

Selected Civil War Correspondence

Buch | Hardcover

488 Seiten

2023
Lehigh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61146-344-6 (ISBN)

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This book contains letters from the Civil War of a Union officer, his fiancée, and some of their connections. The letters witness to their conviction that the pain of their four-year separation and other deprivations would help purify the country from the sin of slavery.

A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections contains letters written during the American Civil War between a Union officer, his fiancée, and some of their connections. It opens a big window onto the lives of élite Northern women on the homefront during the Civil War. The pain of their separation from—and loss of—loved ones and friends at the front, their adaptation to unaccustomed work and acquisition of new skills, their labors for the soldiers at the front and in hospitals, their political involvement, not to mention elder- and childcare and illnesses, their almost morbid anxieties and indomitable wills, are revealed in these documents. Also, the experiences of their menfolk in the army are opened to view. The reader follows them into training camp and the Pennsylvania Reserves, into action for the salvation of Maryland for the Union, in the Army of the Potomac in its vicissitudes. Moreover, the principal male correspondent left the Army of the Potomac after the Battle of Fredericksburg, and became lieutenant colonel of a regiment of Pennsylvania Cavalry in Tennessee, seeing action in that state, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Evidence of the military-political-industrial complex that won the war is present throughout, as is evidence bearing on abolitionism and African-Americans.

Richard Upsher Smith, Jr. is an independent scholar

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General Introduction

Maps

Part I: 1861

Chapter 115 April 1861 - 18 August 1861

Letters 1 - 29

Chapter 219 August 1861 - 31 December 1861 (and 1 January 1862)

Letters 30 - 58

Part II: 1862

Chapter 33 February 1862 - 19 October 1862

Letters 59 - 87

Chapter 426 October 1862 - 31 December 1862

Letters 88 - 99

Part III: 1863

Chapter 58 January 1863 - 30 December 1863

Letters 100 - 112

Part IV: 1864

Chapter 65 January 1864 - 8 May 1864

Letters 113 - 152

Chapter 79 May 1864 - 31 July 1864

Letters 153 - 178

Chapter 81 August 1864 - 20 October 1864

Letters 179 - 204

Chapter 923 October 1864 - 31 December 1864 (and 1 January 1865)

Letters 205 - 237

Part V: 1865

Chapter 101 January 1865 - 17 February 1865

Letters 238 - 252

Chapter 1111 March 1865 - 27 June 1865

Letters 253 - 269

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Erscheinungsdatum	08.07.2023
Verlagsort	Cranbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 236 mm
Gewicht	871 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-61146-344-0 / 1611463440
ISBN-13	978-1-61146-344-6 / 9781611463446
Zustand	Neuware