Their Patriotic Duty: The Civil War Letters of the Evans Family of Brown County, Ohio
Many of the farm families in the river country of southern Ohio sent fathers, husbands, and sons to fight and die in the Civil War. Few families have bequeathed a record of that experience as remarkable as that created by the Evans family: an extraordinary collection of letters that offers a unique portrait of life both on the home front and on the front lines.From his homestead near Ripley on the Ohio River, patriarch Andrew Evans sent two sons to war, and from 1862 to 1866 father and sons wrote each other hundreds of letters. Called the soldier's letters by the family, this cache lay untouched in a barn until the 1980s, when Robert Engs was…
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Weitere Autoren: Brooks, Corey M. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2784-6
- EAN: 9780823227846
- Produktnummer: 2999221
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 410 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B16.1 cm x D3.3 cm 739 g
- Gewicht: 739
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