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A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections

Selected Civil War Correspondence
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A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancee, and Their Connections contains letters written during the American Civil War between a Union officer, his fiancee, and some of their connections. It opens a big window onto the lives of elite 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
Abbreviations 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 Photographs
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