Nancy L. (Hrsg.) Rhoades

Wanted-Correspondence

Women's Letters to a Union Soldier

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This unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front. The letters reveal fascinating details of the lives of mostly young, single women--friends, acquaintances, love interests, and strangers who responded to one Union soldier's advertisement for cor respondents. Almost all of the women who responded Lewis Lybarger's lonely-hearts newspaper advertisement lived in Ohio and supported the Union. Lybarger carried the collection of letters throughout three years of military service, preserved them throug… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Bailey, Lucy E. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8214-1805-5
EAN: 9780821418055
Produktnummer: 3496884
Verlag: Ohio University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm
Abbildungen: illustrations
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Nancy L. Rhoades, the granddaughter of Lieutenant Lybarger, was director of cataloging at the College of Wooster and is the author of Croquet, a history of the game. She died in April 2007. Lucy E. Bailey is an assistant professor of social foundations and qualitative research at Oklahoma State University and serves as core faculty in the Women's Studies program.