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Download or read book The Civil War Letters of Captain Samuel Valentine Dean, of the Pennsylvania 145th Volunteers, Company K. written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Alexander Hastings Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984140015
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Letters from the Storm written by John Alexander Hastings Foster and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LETTERS FROM THE STORM: THE INTIMATE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF LT. J.A.H. FOSTER, 155th PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. 2010 by Linda Foster Arden; Edited by Dr. Walter L. Powell. LETTERS FROM THE STORM is based on a collection of 101 letters written by Lieutenant Foster, mostly to his wife Mary Jane, while serving with the 155th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Company K. Skillfully interspersed with Linda Arden's commentary about the events and situations of the era, these letters are a time capsule of the mid-nineteenth century. In many respects, Foster's letters mirror the comments made by soldiers on both sides: their efforts to seek comfort with news from home, their litany of complaints about the rigors of camp and battle, and their descriptions of men and events on the front lines. However, there is another dimension to Foster's letters that is much less common in Civil War correspondence;the intimate exchange of the couple's views on sex. Throughout their long separation, the couple shares their passionate longing for each other, their fantasies, and their apprehensions about mutual faithfulness--expressions that certainly challenge the broad assumption that "Victorians" did not speak of these matters. Another important dimension to Foster's letters is that he had an especially keen eye for detail, reflected in occasional drawings of subjects as varied as pontoon boats across the Rappahannock or the new corps badges adopted by the Union Army, and a talent for colorful language in speaking of events or personalities. At his best, Foster's comments about the war as seen from a soldier in the field rival anything that has been published. The legacy of Lieutenant Foster's letters reveal a man who lived almost 150 years ago as a man of detail, purpose, and passion. To say the least, the Civil War had an immeasurable effect on Lieutenant Foster, his family, his wife. No readers of LETTERS FROM THE STORM can come away without a true sense of what life was during that time and not be affected themselves. See review, January 2011, CIVIL WAR NEWS: http://www.civilwarnews.com/reviews/2011br/jan/letters-b011117.html. Indexed, 53 illustrations and photos 365 pages, 7 x 10 soft cover
Author : Valentine Ruhle
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Valentine Ruhle and Samuel Ruhle Letters written by Valentine Ruhle and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection consists of two letters written during the American Civil War. The first, dated 13 August 1862, is from Valentine Ruhle to Rebeca Staines. He recounts his intent to live with her after the war. He apologizes for the quality of the handwriting in the letter, attributing it to "much fuss" at the time of writing. The second letter, written circa 1863, is from Samuel Ruhle in Washington City to his sister Mary. He details life at Camp Curtin, Pennsylvania (PA), such as pricing local food items like eggs, butter, and ripe cherries. He states that they receive bread every day from the bakery but pies are required to be bought for thirty cents each. He discusses observations he made of white and black women and mentions his brother, Valentine, who has been discharged from the service. Samuel states he will send Mary a present and for her to reply if she receives the letter. He also references Rebecah, to whom the other letter in this collection was written (same woman, though spelled differently).
Author : Charlotte Rosenquist Shover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733682909
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (829 download)
Download or read book The Civil War Letters of Samuel W. Croft & William C. Wiley written by Charlotte Rosenquist Shover and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Augustus Burney
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865548169
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (481 download)
Download or read book A Southern Soldier's Letters Home written by Samuel Augustus Burney and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel A. Burney, born in April 1840, was the son of Thomas Jefferson Burney and Julia Shields Burney. He graduated from Mercer University (then at Penfield, Georgia) in 1860. He joined the Panola Guards, an infantry component of Thomas R. R. Cobb's Georgia Legion, in July 1861. For the next four years he served in the Army of Northern Virginia both in Virginia and in Tennessee. Burney was wounded at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and as a result of his wound he was placed in disability in March 1864 and served the remainder of the war on commissary duty in southwest Georgia. After the war, Burney returned to Mercer's school of theology, was ordained into the Baptist ministry, and served as pastor of several churches in Morgan County. He was pastor of the Madison Baptist Church until shortly before his death in 1896. These letters of a college graduate written to his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd Burney are lyrical and beautifully written. Burney describes battles, camp life, theology, and the day-to-day dreariness of life in the army. This is an astounding collection of letters for anyone interested in the Civil War, or the South.
Author : Samuel A. Worthington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Civil War Letters written by Samuel A. Worthington and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photocopies and transcripts of letters of Samuel A. Worthington, sergeant in Ohio Volunteer Infantry 12th Regiment, Company K.
Author : David J. Coles
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572338830
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)
Download or read book A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley written by David J. Coles and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, John H. Black typified the thousands of volunteers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. Born in 1834 and raised on his family’s farm near Allegheny Township, Pennsylvania, Black taught school until he, like many Pennsylvanians, rushed to defend the Union after the attack on Fort Sumter in April 1861. He served with the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry, one of the Union’s most unruly, maligned, and criticized units.Consistently outperformed early in the conflict, the Twelfth finally managed to salvage much of its reputation by the end of the war. Throughout his service, Black penned frequent and descriptive letters to his fiancée and later wife, Jennie Leighty Black. This welcome volume presents this complete correspondence for the first time, offering a surprisingly full record of the cavalryman’s service from 1862 to 1865 and an intimate portrait of a wartime romance. In his letters, Black reveals his impassioned devotion to the cause, frequently expressing his disgust toward those who would not enlist and his frustration with friends who were not appropriately patriotic. Despite the Twelfth Pennsylvania’s somewhat checkered history, Black consistently praises both the regiment’s men and their service and demonstrates a strong camaraderie with his fellow soldiers. He offers detailed descriptions of the regiment’s vital operations in protecting Unionists and tracking down and combating guerrillas, in particular John Singleton Mosby and his partisan rangers, providing a rare first-person account of Union counterinsurgency tactics in the Lower Shenandoah Valley. In the midst of portraying heated and chaotic military operations, Black makes Jennie a prominent character in his war, illustrating the various ways in which the conflict altered or nurtured romantic relationships. One of the few compilations of letters by a long-term Yankee cavalry member and the only such collection by a member of the Twelfth Pennsylvania, A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley provides new insights into the brutal, confused guerrilla fighting that occurred in northwestern Virginia. Moreover, these letters make a significant contribution toward an emerging consensus that Yankee cavalry—often maligned and contrasted with their celebrated Confederate foes—became a superior fighting force as the war progressed. David J. Coles, professor of history at Longwood University, is the associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Civil War, coauthor of Sons of Garibaldi in Blue and Gray, and coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Civil War. Stephen D. Engle, professor of history at Florida Atlantic University, is the author of Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz Sigel, Don Carlos Buell: Most Promising of All, and Struggle for the Heartland: The Campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth.
Author : Samuel Ensminger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Letters to Lanah written by Samuel Ensminger and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the correspondence of Samuel Ensminger, a drafted Union soldier from rural south central Pennsylvania during the time he served as private and sargeant in the 158 Regiment-Militia Pennsylvania Infantry.
Author : Compiled By: Kenena Hansen Spalding
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467811181
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)
Download or read book Tuf as a Boiled Owl written by Compiled By: Kenena Hansen Spalding and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proctor Swallow’s letters to his friend and brother-in-law Loomis Spalding depict the ordinary Civil War soldier’s view of camp life, eagerness to know what is going on in other parts of the war and concern for the family at home. He describes, sometimes vividly, the places and events he sees and relates them to what he remembers. He would be at home with the Doughboy or GI Joe. Proctor Swallow mustered into the Seventh Vermont Volunteer Regiment at its formation at the Rutland Fair Grounds in February 1862. He mustered out with the Seventh Vermont Veteran Volunteer Regiment in Brattleboro in March 1866. He served the entire time as a member of I Company in a variety of jobs including infantryman, tailor, and company clerk. The officers and men of the Seventh expected to fight with other Vermont regiments in Virginia when they enlisted. Instead they were sent to the Gulf of Mexico as a result of some political machinations by General Ben Butler. They served in several locations in Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. At the end of the war, while most Vermont units were parading down Pennsylvania Avenue in the victory celebration on their way home, the Seventh was sent to Texas and stationed along the Rio Grande River. It was the last Vermont Volunteer Regiment to return.
Author : Samuel Francis Du Pont
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Samuel Francis Du Pont written by Samuel Francis Du Pont and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy J. Orr
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572337931
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)
Download or read book Last to Leave the Field written by Timothy J. Orr and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the mind-set of a soldier seared by the horrors of combat even as he kept faith in his cause, Last to Leave the Field showcases the private letters of Ambrose Henry Hayward, a Massachusetts native who served in the 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Hayward’s service, which began with his enlistment in the summer of 1861 and ended three years later following his mortal wounding at the Battle of Pine Knob in Georgia, took him through a variety of campaigns in both the Eastern and Western theaters of the war. He saw action in five states, participating in the battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg as well as in the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns. Through his letters to his parents and siblings, we observe the early idealism of the young recruit, and then, as one friend after another died beside him, we witness how the war gradually hardened him. Yet, despite the increasing brutality of what would become America’s costliest conflict, Hayward continually reaffirmed his faith in the Union cause, reenlisting for service late in 1863. Hayward’s correspondence takes us through many of the war’s most significant developments, including the collapse of slavery and the enforcement of Union policy toward Southern civilians. Also revealed are Hayward’s feelings about Confederates, his assessments of Union political and military leadership, and his attitudes toward desertion, conscription, forced marches, drilling, fighting, bravery, cowardice, and comradeship. Ultimately, Hayward’s letters reveal the emotions—occasionally guarded but more often expressed with striking candor—of a soldier who at every battle resolved to be, as one comrade described him, “the first to spring forward and the last to leave the field.” Timothy J. Orr is an assistant professor of military history at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Author : Gene Barr
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 161121291X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book A Civil War Captain and His Lady written by Gene Barr and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Barr’s engaging and revealing collection of letters from Lincoln country directly links the battlefield with the home front” (Randall M. Miller, editor of Lincoln & Leadership). More than 150 years ago, twenty-seven-year-old Irish immigrant Josiah Moore met nineteen-year-old Jennie Lindsay, a member of one of Peoria, Illinois’s most prominent families. The Civil War had just begun, Josiah was the captain of the 17th Illinois Infantry, and his war would be a long and bloody one. Their courtship and romance, which came to light in a rare and unpublished series of letters, form the basis of Gene Barr’s memorable book. Josiah and Jennie’s letters shed significant light on the important role played by a soldier’s sweetheart on the home front, and a warrior’s observations from the war front. In addition to this deeply moving and often riveting correspondence, Barr includes previously unpublished material on the 17th Illinois and the war’s Western Theater, including Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and the lesser known Meridian Campaign—actions that have historically received much less attention than similar battles in the Eastern Theater. The result is a rich, complete, and satisfying story of love, danger, politics, and warfare—one you won’t soon forget. “A delightful read on many levels: the stilted Victorian language in the letters quickly becomes easy to understand as the reader watches the relationship between Joshua and Jennie evolve into a full-fledged love affair—one that lasted a lifetime.” —Emerging Civil War “In this rare and remarkable collection of letters readers come to know two young lovers brought together and then separated by the exigencies of war.” —Terrence J. Winschel, author of Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign
Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486484505
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
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.
Author : Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081315765X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book While Father Is Away written by Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 window on the unique relationships among husband, wife, and children while a father was away at war. Yorkshire attorney turned Union volunteer soldier Bradbury became a "privileged private" with extraordinary access to powerful Union generals including Daniel Butterfield, future president Benjamin Harrison, and Clinton B. Fisk, the region's administrator for the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction. The letters also provide an in-depth look at this driven land speculator and manager for the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway. As a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the Manchester Guardian, Bradbury was both eyewitness to and participant in the shaping of events in the world as it moved west.
Author : Dick Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195358732
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book "Far, Far From Home" written by Dick Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home--published here for the first time--read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy. In their last year of college when the war broke out, Dick and Tally were hastily handed their diplomas so they could volunteer for military duty. Dick was twenty; Tally was twenty-two. Well educated, intelligent, and thoughtful young men, Dick and Tally cared deeply for their country, their family, and their comrades-in-arms and wrote frequently to their loved ones in Pendleton, South Carolina, offering firsthand accounts of dramatic events from the battle of First Manassas in July 1861 to the battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. Their letters provide a picture of war as it was actually experienced at the time, not as it was remembered some twenty or thirty years later. It is a picture that neither glorifies war nor condemns it, but simply "tells it like it is." Written to a number of different people, the boys' letters home dealt with a number of different subjects. Letters to "Pa" went into great detail about military matters in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia--troop movements, casualties, and how well particular units had fought; letters to "Ma" and sisters Anna and Mary were about camp life and family friends in the army and usually included requests for much-needed food and clothing; letters to Aunt Caroline and her daughter Carrie usually concerned affairs of the heart, for Aunt Caroline continued to be Dick and Tally's trusted confidante, even when they were "far, far from home." The value of these letters lies not so much in the detailed information they provide as in the overall picture they convey--a picture of how one Southern family, for better or for worse, at home and at the front--coped with the experience of war. These are not wartime reminiscences, but wartime letters, written from the camp, the battlefield, the hospital bed, the picket line--wherever the boys happened to be when they found time to write home. It is a poignant picture of war as it was actually experienced in the South as the Civil War unfolded.
Author : Joseph Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book War Letters of a Disbanded Volunteer written by Joseph Barber and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous look at the U.S. Civil War through fictional "war letters".
Author : Samuel Bliss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Cruel War and Cursed Rebellion written by Samuel Bliss and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
