Civil War Letters
How the Civil War Taught Americans the Art of Letter Writing
Much of the time, they did so by writing about their bodies. In hundreds of millions of letters sent between battlefield and home front, moving ...
"Oll and Toad" - A Civil War Love Story | Tennessee Secretary of State
' Most of the letters were written between 1861 and 1863 while King was serving in the Confederate army. King and Rutledge were Southern sympathizers in East ...
Common Lives in Civil War Letters by Christopher Hager (review)
Hager claims the average Civil War soldier produced seventy or more letters during his service, vastly outnumbering 1860's average of five to six letters per ...
Sincerely Yours: The End of the Civil War | IU Libraries Blogs
... Civil War letters in Alexander's collection, including the one that Katie included in her post. It's been a real treat to read these as the ...
The Civil War Letters of General Robert McAllister - LSU Press
Not a flamboyant leader or a braggart, General Robert McAllister was one of the quietly efficient commanders whose noble gallantry ultimately proved to be ...
The Civil War Letters of Joshua K. Callaway - UGA Press
Callaway took part in some of the most critical campaigns of the Civil War. His twice-weekly letters home, written between April 1862 and November 1863, ...
Civil War Letter | SCOUT - University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Civil War Letter ... This letter was written by an unidentified Civil War soldier to his parents in September of 1863. In it, he describes Union troop movements ...
Civil War Correspondence (1861-1865) - Whitman Archive
Civil War Correspondence (1861-1865) ... Between the first week of 1860 and the final days of 1866, Walt Whitman wrote and received more than 600 letters. Taken ...
Civil War soldiers letters - Union.
Overview Letter written by Thomas H. McBee to his father Zadoc McBee from "Camp on Rapidan River", dated 14 August 1862. The letter regards the fight between ...
The Civil War Letters of Major Charles J. Mills, 1862-1865, Revised ...
Originally published and edited in a limited edition of only 300 copies in 1982 by the late historian Gregory A. Coco, Through Blood and Fire: ...
Letter from a soldier to his parents during the Civil War - FromThePage
Letter from a soldier to his parents during the Civil War (Civil War letters at Middlebury College) - read Work. Letter from Civil War soldier, ...
A Quiet Corner of the War The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther ...
In 2002, Judy Cook discovered a packet of letters written by her great-great-grandparents, Gilbert and Esther Claflin, during the American Civil War. An ...
Soldiers' Diaries and Letters - Essential Civil War Curriculum
About eight out of every ten Confederate soldiers and nine out of every ten Union soldiers could read and write. The letters and diaries written by Union and ...
Primary Sources: Letters and Diaries - Civil War Medicine
Letters and Diaries from our collection and elsewhere to help your research.
Colin Dunlop civil war letters, 1864, 1945 - Digital Library of Georgia
This collection contains the transcriptions of three letters written during the Civil War by Colin Dunlop. The first letter was written to his sister on April ...
Michael Lally Civil War letters, 1861-1865 - Brandeis University
Thanks be to God for bringing me safe through the battle on Munday the 5 ins which was a hard day between blood and rain from 7 in the morning ...
While Father Is Away: The Civil War Letters of William H. Bradbury
While Father is Away reveals the intimate story of a British-American's role in the American Civil War. William Bradbury's letters home provide a rare ...
The Civil War Letters of Knud Helling - Minnesota Historical Society
These are Civil War letters (1862-1865) written by Knud Helling, a Norwegian immigrant to Minnesota, to his good friend best friend, Gull Guttormson or ...
Forbes (Albert M.) Civil War Letters - Online Archive of California
This collection comprises seven letters sent from Albert M. Forbes, Lieutenant, Member Company of the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, to his family in 1862 during ...
CIVIL WAR LETTERS - LSU Libraries - Louisiana State University
Copies of scholarly publications based on research in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi. Valley Collections are welcomed. Page 3. CIVIL WAR LETTERS. Mss. 983.