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The Hour of Our Nation's Agony: The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi
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The Hour of Our Nation's Agony: The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi, edited by Jennifer W. Ford. Tennessee, September 2007. $48.50
William C. Nelson was a young college student at the University of Mississippi when the Civil War broke out. Enlisting early, he served first in Florida near Pensacola and then joined a unit attached to the Army of Northern Virginia. There he secured a position as a staff officer, which afforded him both an ideal vantage point ...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Vivid letters bring Civil War insight to the Web.(VARIETY)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Thomas Christie, a Union private in the Civil War, was with his Minnesota unit in Mississippi in June of 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg. He took up his pen to write home: The Rebs [rebels] with all their practice have as yet succeeded in wounding only one of us, and in killing some half dozen
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All Right Let Them Come: The Civil War Diary of an East Tennessee Confederate.(A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a Confederate Soldier from Maine)("Fear Was Not in Him": The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A.)(In the Saddle with the Texans: Day by Day with Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, 1862-1865)(Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment Army of Northern Virginia)(Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill: The "War Memories" of John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry)(A Legacy of Valor: The Memoirs and Letters of Captain Henry Newton Comey, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry)(Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers: The Civil War Letters of the Remley Brothers, 22nd Iowa Infantry)(Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar: The Memoirs of William Henry Corbusier, 1844-1930)(Book Review)
Journal of Southern History
; All Right Let Them Come: The Civil War Diary of an East Tennessee Confederate. Edited by Charles Swift Northen III. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 115. $24.95, ISBN 1-57233-233-6.) A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a
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All Right Let Them Come: The Civil War Diary of an East Tennessee Confederate/A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a Confederate Soldier from Maine/"Fear Was Not in Him": The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A/In the Saddle with the Texans: Day by Day with Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, 1862-1865/Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment Army of Northern Virginia/Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill: The "War Memories" of John Henry Otto, Captain, Company D, 21st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry/A Legacy of Valor: The Memoirs and Letters of Captain Henry Newton Comey, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry/Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers: The Civil War Letters of the Remley Brothers, 22nd Iowa Infantry/Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar: The Memoirs of William Henry Corbusier, 1844-1930
The Journal of Southern History
; All Right Let Them Come: The Civil War Diary of an East Tennessee Confederate. Edited by Charles Swift Northen III. Voices of the Civil War. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 115. $24.95, ISBN 1-57233-233-6.) A Confederate Yankee: The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a
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Long Road to Liberty: The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army: The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry/Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home/August Willich's Gallant Dutchmen: Civil War Letters from the 32nd Indiana Infantry
The Journal of Southern History
; Long Road to Liberty: The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army: The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. By Donald Allendorf. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c. 2006. Pp. [xxxii], 342. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-87338-871-9.) Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home. Edited
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BOOK ON CIVIL WAR LETTERS IS UNEXPECTED HIT
Roanoke Times & World News
; The publishers of a new book about the Civil War in Southwest Virginia seemed skeptical when its editor, James Robertson of Virginia Tech, said that he wanted to premiere it in Marion. But that turned out to be the right place. The first 100 copies of "Soldier of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil
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Civil War items donated to BHS
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
; BETHEL - Bethel Historical Society Curator of Collections Randall H. Bennett has announced the gift of more than 100 Civil War letters, a Civil War era diary kept by a war widow and an 1862 military sewing case and portable writing case carried by Andrew Jackson Bean during the war. They are gifts
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Woman donates Civil War items to Bethel society
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
; BETHEL - Bethel Historical Society Curator of Collections Randall H. Bennett has announced the gift of more than 100 Civil War letters, a Civil War era diary kept by a war widow and an 1862 military sewing case and portable writing case carried by Andrew Jackson Bean during the war. They are gifts
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Lamson of the Gettysburg: The Civil War Letters of Lieutenant Roswell H. Lamson, U.S Navy
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
; ... an insightful and strong conclusion. The index is adequate, and the seven maps are well positioned and helpful. There is a nice selection of photographs ... of Civil War leaders. [Author Affiliation] The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia
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Learning about the Civil War through soldiers' letters.
Social Education
; ... date with the happenings in his community. In one letter, Rufus closed by saying, Write often as you can & give me all the news about Dover and home. Give all the boys my best wishes, but most especially the Girls, that happen to still remember ... . Alas ...
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The blue and the gray -- the Civil War on the Web. (Tech Talk for Social Studies Teachers).
The Social Studies
; ... revolutionarywarwebquest.htm>. <http://www.civilwarmall.com/> This commercial site offers books, prints, photographs, maps, and other items dealing with the Civil War. It is helpful for teachers wanting to purchase items to use in the classroom. < ...
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