Download or read book The Smith Dilley Collection of Civil War Letters 1860 1905 written by Marilyn E. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a group of letters that center on the George W. Smith and Sarah Dilley Smith families. The letters are primarily written by various family members to George and Sarah and by George and Sarah in return. Included are also letters to and from Sarah's mother and father, Samuel M. and Charlotte Lemanda Hinds Usher Dilley and by Sarah's brothers from the battlefield. Although most of the family is from Mississippi, some letters are those from George's siblings and families who lived in and wrote from Alabama. The letters were sent during the war years of 1860-1866. A few addtional items included were written as late as 1974 by family members."--Preface.
Download or read book The Civil War Letters of Abner C Smith written by Claire Smith and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters Written by Union soldier Abner C. Smith to His Family in East Haddam, Connecticut, 1862-1865. Transcribed and Annotated. One by one, his wife saved his letters, until, at the end of two-and-a-half years, there were 113. His children saved them and began the passing of the letters to the next generations, who lovingly preserved them. Now they are in book form, transcribed and annotated. Abner C. Smith's letters tell the story of the Civil War in the voice on an ordinary Union soldier who tries with all his might to raise his children and support his wife through the written word only. Hope, patriotism, faith, courage, humor, and love weave together with his worries about the cow, the wood, the crops, the finances, the health of his children, the education of his children, the laziness of his children, and how to be sure his one daughter, the teenaged Georgiana, would be "a good girl." As part of the 20th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers, his letters come from New Haven, Washington D.C., Virginia, Gettysburg, Alabama, Tennessee, "somewhere is the woods of Georgia" while on Sherman's March to Sea, Savannah, and from a "Hospital near Goldsboro, North Carolina." (The companion book, Georgiana, Like So Many, is the story of Abner C. Smith's daughter.)
Download or read book Civil War Letters written by Bob Blaisdell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wartime letters include correspondence of Union and Confederate sympathizers and soldiers of all ranks. Authentic illustrations accompany insightful missives by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Whitman, Davis, and many of their contemporaries.
Download or read book The Civil War Papers of George B McClellan written by Stephen W. Sears and published by HMH. This book was released on 1989-02-27 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Gettysburg: A “valuable” collection of the letters of this controversial Civil War general (James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books). No one played as many major roles during the Civil War as Gen. George B. McClellan, nor did any other figure write such candid letters about himself, his motivations, and his intentions. For Civil War buffs, this collection is a gold mine, revealing nuggets of fresh information on military operations and political machinations, from the battle of Antietam through McClellan’s 1864 race for the presidency—as well as the uninhibited correspondence McClellan wrote to his wife—selected and introduced by the prize-winning author Stephen W. Sears, “a first-class writer and splendid historian” (The Wall Street Journal). “A treasure-trove . . . Nothing of importance concerning [McClellan’s] military strategies and tactics or the politics, policies, and issues of the war has been omitted. Sears has edited the collection with consummate economy and skill, and his introductory essays to the book’s eleven sections weave the disparate facts of McClellan’s wartime experience together.” —Library Journal “The letters are most valuable as a revelation of McClellan’s personality, which lay at the root of his military failure. They make clear that his initial success and fame went to his head.” —James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books “Introduced with insightful essays . . . [McClellan] emerges as the Captain Queeg of the Civil War.” —Harold Holzer, Chicago Tribune
Download or read book Who Only Stand and Wait written by David Smith and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Only Stand and Wait is a story of the Civil War, but with few exceptions, not of battles. It is the account, in letters, between a couple, Ann and David Smith, from Steuben County, New York. While Ann waited at home, David served his time at a series of forts in the New York Harbor area, punctuated by one long trip to the south with recruits and prisoners, and one period of activity controlling the New York draft riots. Separated by more than distance, life in the military could not be shared. this couple represents thousands more. While not in the front lines, they never-the-less were touched by death, by the shock of a world they could not have imagined in rural Steuben County, and by the testing of all their values. Their letters to each other make it real to us. -- Back cover.
Download or read book R B Smith Civil War Letters written by R. B. Smith (Capt.) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from Smith to his wife describing his experiences in the Civil War.
Download or read book Death of a Confederate written by Arthur N. Skinner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning nearly a century, the letters in this collection revolve around a central event in the history of a southern family: the death of the eldest son owing to sickness contracted during service in the Confederate Army. The letters reveal a slaveowning family with keen interests in art, music, and nature and an unshakable belief in their religion and in the Confederate cause. William Seagrove Smith was a private in the signal corps of the Eighteenth Battalion, Georgia Infantry. Smith was part of the force defending Savannah until it fell in late 1864, and then marched with General William J. Hardee in his famous retreat out of the city and through the Carolinas. Like so many other soldiers on both sides of the conflict, William Smith fell not at the hands of an enemy but from disease. He died in Raleigh, North Carolina, on July 7, 1865. A parallel and complementary story about William's younger brother, Archibald, also emerges in the letters. As a cadet at Georgia Military Institute, Archibald was (as his parents fervently wished) exempt from service; however, he ultimately saw--and survived--action before the war's end. Scattered among the many lines in the letters that are devoted to the two brothers are a wealth of particulars about agricultural, industrial, and social life in the family's north Georgia community of Roswell, the Smith family's flight from Sherman's invasion force, their lives as refugees in south Georgia, and a final reunion of the Smith brothers outside of Savannah just after the city's fall. Also included are a number of moving exchanges between the Smiths and the family that cared for William in his final days. A brief history of the Smith family through 1863 begins the correspondence, while the letters following the war reveal their fortitude in the face of William's death and the hardships of Reconstruction. The volume concludes with selected letters from the subsequent generation of Smiths, who conjure images of the Old South and revive the memory of William. Like the most distinguished Civil War-era letter collections, The Death of a Confederate introduces a personal dimension to its story that is often lost in histories of this sweeping event.
Download or read book Wesley Miller s Collection of Civil War Letters written by Wesley Garhart Miller and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Soldier s Letters to Charming Nellie written by Joseph Benjamin Polley and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most cited collections of letters by a Civil War soldier, A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie was originally published in 1908. A unit history of the 4th Texas Infantry in epistolary form, Joseph B. Polley's letters make available the correspondence of a soldier who participated in virtually all military action in the Eastern Theater. Polley was an unusually gifted writer, with a talent for satire and humor unmatched by most Civil War diarists." "In this definitive, annotated edition, Richard B. McCaslin has prepared new transcriptions of the letters and compared variant versions of them, resolving many of the historiographical puzzles that surround this wonderful collection. McCaslin also includes an analysis of when, how, and why Polley wrote the letters." "The volume will aid historians interested in the activities of the Army of Northern Virginia and its commanders, and especially students of Hood's Texas Brigade."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Civil War Letters written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dear Wife written by Daniel B. White and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergeant Simeon Anderson Tierce was a Hills resident and a Civil War Soldier. His eloquent letters were written to his wife, Sarah Jane, while serving in the Civil War. Evident in his writing are his love and concern for his family, friends, and neighbors in The Hills community. He described life as a soldier, the living conditions, work duties, illness, and death. Transcriptions are courtesy of Dr. Edythe A. Quinn, who discovered the letters during her research at the National Archives.
Download or read book Civil War Letters 1861 to 1865 written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yours Till Death written by John Weaver Cotton and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil War Letters written by William Bowen Gallaher and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book The Civil War Letters of Horace A Smith 1861 1870 written by Horace Aurelius Smith and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven letters written by Smith to Louisa Hawkes Barrows Dorman, as a soldier in the Civil War and after the war. The early letters are written from Portland, while the middle letters were written from the field, while Smith was with the 17th Maine Infantry; he was wounded at Gettsyburg and never saw action again. The last few letters provide insights to Portland near the end of the war.
Download or read book The View from Headquarters written by Harvey Reid and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
