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Book Civil War Letters  1862 1863

Download or read book Civil War Letters 1862 1863 written by William C. Penland and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civil War Letters of Joshua K  Callaway

Download or read book The Civil War Letters of Joshua K Callaway written by Joshua K. Callaway and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Kentucky Campaign to Tullahoma, Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge, junior officer Joshua K. 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, chronicle his gradual change from an ardent Confederate soldier to a weary veteran who longs to be at home. Callaway was a schoolteacher, husband, and father of two when he enlisted in the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment at the age of twenty-seven. Serving with the Army of the Tennessee, he campaigned in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, and north Georgia. Along the way this perceptive observer and gifted writer wrote a continuous narrative detailing the activities, concerns, hopes, fears, discomforts, and pleasures of a Confederate soldier in the field. Whether writing about combat, illness, encampments, or homesickness, Callaway makes even the everyday aspects of soldiering interesting. This large collection, seventy-four letters in all, is a valuable historical reference that provides new insights into life behind the front lines of the Civil War.

Book A Quiet Corner of the War

Download or read book A Quiet Corner of the War written by Gilbert Claflin and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 unexpected bounty, these letters from 1862–63 offer visceral witness to the war, recounting the trials of a family separated. Gilbert, an articulate and cheerful forty-year-old farmer, was drafted into the Union Army and served in the Thirty-Fourth Wisconsin Infantry garrisoned in western Kentucky along the Mississippi. Esther had married Gilbert when she was fifteen; now a woman with two teenage sons, she ran the family farm near Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in Gilbert’s absence. In his letters, Gilbert writes about food, hygiene, rampant desertions by drafted men, rebel guerrilla raids, and pastimes in the daily life of a soldier. His comments on interactions with Confederate prisoners and ex-slaves before and after the Emancipation Proclamation reveal his personal views on monumental events. Esther shares in her letters the challenges and joys of maintaining the farm, accounts of their boys Elton and Price, concerns about finances and health, and news of their local community and extended family. Esther’s experiences provide insight into family, farm, and village life in the wartime North, an often overlooked aspect of Civil War history. Judy Cook has made the letters accessible to a wider audience by providing historical context with notes and appendixes. The volume includes a foreword by Civil War historian Keith S. Bohannon.

Book A Selection from His Civil War Letters

Download or read book A Selection from His Civil War Letters written by Samuel Francis Du Pont and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civil war letters on board the Alabama

Download or read book Civil war letters on board the Alabama written by John McIntosh Kell and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters Home

Download or read book Letters Home written by Bishop Asbury Cook and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The news has come that the Rebel Braggs army is whipped and cut to pieces. One whole regiment come over to our side, so I guess Kentucky is sick of fighting against the Union. It is near 12 o'clock and we have been taking up our tents and putting them in line, so we have quite a village. To see the fortifications, forts, and cannons that are planted here is astonishing. There is men enough too. Regiment after Regiment. I am not discontented in the least. I see no hardship but what I can endure for the good of my country..." The 144th Regiment of the New York Volunteer Infantry signed up its first recruit, Bishop Asbury Cook, on August 12, 1862, and Cook remained with the regiment until it mustered out in July, 1865. The letters contained in this volume span Cook's career with the regiment. Letters written by Cook to his wife, Louisa Maria (Alexander) Cook are grouped by month and describe the daily activities and everyday concerns of the average soldier. Each month's section contains a chronology of events for the Civil War nationwide, a chronology of events within the 144th Regiment, and a history of the regiment. Supplemental historical background enhances, and sometimes contrasts with, the contents of Cook's letters.

Book Letters from the Iron Brigade

Download or read book Letters from the Iron Brigade written by George Washington Partridge and published by Guilde Press of Indiana. This book was released on 1994 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Selection from His Civil War Letters

Download or read book A Selection from His Civil War Letters written by Samuel Francis Du Pont and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Civil War Letters  1862 1865  of Private Henry Kauffman

Download or read book The Civil War Letters 1862 1865 of Private Henry Kauffman written by Henry Kauffman and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of letters was written by a young infantryman, Henry Kauffman, during his service in the American Civil war. The letters should appeal to Civil War enthusiasts, mainly because of their style and the personality of the young man who penned them. Although registered as blacksmith in the Company Descriptive Book of the 110th Regiment of the Ohio Infantry, Henry Kauffman insisted upon serving as a front-line infantryman throughout the war. His unit was involved in some of the more intense fighting in the war, particularly in the Shenandoah Valley. He was captured by the Confederates at one point and paroled. He deserted, was caught and returned to duty. Later he was wounded and finally mustered out of a military hospital.

Book Yours Till Death

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Cotton
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 1951
  • ISBN : 0817350438
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Yours Till Death written by John Cotton and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1951 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These letters from a yeoman farmer in the Confederate Army to his wife in Coosa County, Alabama, will be of interest to historians not only for the light shed upon the life of the Confederate soldier, but also for frequent allusions to rural life and the operation of the farm in Cotton's absence. He enlisted at Pinckneyville, Alabama, on April 1, 1862, and was paroled at Talladega on May 25, 1865. During the intervening years he saw action in Tennessee and Kentucky, in the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, briefly again in Tennessee, then in Georgia against the forces of Sherman, moving finally into South Carolina.... These letters constitute an authentic record of a typical Confederate soldier's experience," ---Journal of Southern History

Book This Cruel War

Download or read book This Cruel War written by Grant Taylor and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some thirty-two of Malinda Taylor's own letters to her husband are part of this invaluable correspondence. Her letters offer a rich source on what the war did to Southern yeoman society. She records the problems of running the family farm and caring for their young children often on her own. Malinda gained self-reliance that made her husband uneasy. Despite all their trials, the Taylors remained a loving couple not afraid to express their feelings for each other."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Civil War Letters of Dandridge William and Naomi Bush Cockrell  1862 1863

Download or read book Civil War Letters of Dandridge William and Naomi Bush Cockrell 1862 1863 written by Dandridge William Cockrell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Civil War Letters

Download or read book Civil War Letters written by William H. Trisler and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection consists of Trisler's letters (1861-1864) to family members in Mitchell, New Albany, Smithville, and Bloomington, Ind. while he was serving with the 14th Indiana Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He wrote from Virginia and Maryland of battle and camp experiences, especially his time spent at a Union hospital in Baltimore while recovering from wounds (1862-1863). It also includes one letter to Trisler from a Wiley Browning regarding financial affairs, 1861.

Book Civil War Letters

Download or read book Civil War Letters written by Austin Durham and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection consists of Durham's Civil War letters (1862-1863) to his wife, Mary Jane, from Indianapolis (Camp Joe Reynolds), Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi (Vicksburg), and Louisiana (New Orleans).

Book Keep All My Letters

Download or read book Keep All My Letters written by Richard Henry Brooks and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1862, Richard Henry Brooks of Blakely, Georgia, enlisted in the Confederate Army for the duration of the war, serving in Longstreet's Corps. He would see his wife and family only once in the next three years. He would suffer hardship and deprivation, become hospitalized, participate in one of the grandest Confederate victories of the war, and be captured and held prisoner for almost a year. He wrote his wife Telitha regularly. He told her repeatedly to save all his letters, which she did, and they are published in this book. These letters give considerable insight into Confederate homelife in southwest Georgia during the war. Brooks gives Telitha advice on the daily details of running the household. He tells her who to go to for help, how to obtain enough corn and pork for the winter, how to handle their slaves, and what supplies to send him in the field. He advises her on the children and directs the children to behave. These glimpses into the homelife of Confederate Georgia grant us a clearer understanding of how people far from the battlefields were still affected by the war.

Book Noble Sentiments of the Soul

Download or read book Noble Sentiments of the Soul written by Carol Brockway-Lieto and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Joseph Dobbs Bishop was serving in Louisiana with the 23rd Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, he wrote letters ceaselessly to his wife and children. In several ways, his correspondence is typical of Civil War soldiers—he sends news of his comrades, he mentions his duties (he was a musician as well as an infantryman), he observes the landscape, complains about weather, illness, boredom, and homesickness, and longs for more letters from his wife. But Bishop’s letters go beyond typical to remarkable. He shows conflicting feelings about the war as time passes, he expresses startling opinions about slavery and emancipation, and above all, he fills his pages with passion for his spouse. Indeed, his correspondence goes beyond romantic, such that it might even be called erotic and hence a complete surprise to the modern audience. Bishop’s letters are tragic too, so there is a complete range of emotions to appreciate here. In short, the war is not the point of these soldier’s letters; their point is the soldier’s heart.

Book Letters from the War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sgt. George A. Crawley
  • Publisher : Gegensatz Press
  • Release : 2016-04-11
  • ISBN : 1621307522
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book Letters from the War written by Sgt. George A. Crawley and published by Gegensatz Press. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven letters written home by Union enlisted men in the American Civil War, with maps and annotations.