Author : Joyce Hawthorne Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692953105
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (531 download)
Book Synopsis Elmina Spencer by : Joyce Hawthorne Cook
Download or read book Elmina Spencer written by Joyce Hawthorne Cook and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Civil War history from the front lines, by a woman who lived it. She is an unknown heroine in her Central New York home county where she lived for 78 of her 93 years. What is most fascinating are the letters, newspaper articles, and United States Sanitary Commission Agent reports that she wrote during and after the war. Her descriptions of locations, activities, and battles put the reader right there with her. After the war, she, her husband, and their parents homesteaded in central Kansas, where she was left alone after their deaths; to survive she wrote articles for the local newspaper about her Civil War experiences.She was the only woman at the Oswego County's 147th Volunteer Regiment Gettysburg monument dedication to receive a veterans' medal.Her life after the Civil War was one of struggle, pain, and loss, yet she remained steadfast in her desire and drive to serve others. Local history, women's history, and Civil War history are all covered in this absorbing story.