ISBN:
9781496234926
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (471 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
973.780922
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Toward a More Perfect Union collects 162 letters exchanged between Frederic E. Lockley and his wife Elizabeth, during and after the Civil War.
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. The Setting -- 2. Days of Roman Heroism: August-September 1862 -- 3. It's All for Our Country: September-November 1862 -- 4. Not Exactly a Bed of Roses: December 1862 -- 5. We Must Ride the Tempest: January-May 1863 -- 6. Your Letters Are My Meat and Drink: May-June 1863 -- 7. Would You Fancy the Surprise?: Mid-June-Mid-July 1863 -- 8. I Am at My Old Lunes: July-September 1863 -- 9. Hope Is the Anchor of the Soul: October 1863 -- 10. A Rather Scandalous Affair: November 1863-January 1, 1864 -- 11. This Morning That Boy Was Buried: January-March 1864 -- 12. I Left Josey Standing on the Stoop: March-April 1864 -- 13. Sergeant Major! We Have Got Our Orders!: May-June 1864 -- 14. Soldiering in Its Roughest, Sternest Form: June-July 1864 -- 15. An Epoch of Endurance: Mid-July-Mid-August 1864 -- 16. No Sundays in the Army: August-September 1864 -- 17. Fighting Is Almost Incessant: September-October 1864 -- 18. Which Ticket Are You Going to Vote?: October-November 1864 -- 19. Johnnies Deserting by Wholesale: December 1864-January 1865 -- 20. The Fighting Is Nearly Over: February-March 1865 -- 21. The Little Mischief: March-April 1865 -- 22. A Soul Struggling to Be Free: April-May 1865 -- 23. I Share with You in This Impatience: Early to Mid-May 1865 -- 24. My Last Letter!!: Late May-June 1865 -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Frederic's Letter to Elizabeth, January 11, 1863 -- Appendix 2: Frederic's Letter to Elizabeth, August 7, 1864 -- Appendix 3: Timeline of Key Events -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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