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A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections
Selected Civil War Correspondence
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2023
Summary
A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence offers a Northern counterpart to the great collection of Southern family letters published in The Children of Pride. Featuring recently discovered historical material, the book offers a selection of correspondence written by two Pennsylvanians, and their family and friends, between 1861 and 1865. The chief letter writers, Charles Lamborn and Emma Taylor, came from well-connected families in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Their correspondence covers the early years of their courtship until their marriage, a period when Charlie was at the warfront. Charlie’s correspondence presents information about his military experiences, providing little known details of the early campaigns of the Army of the Potomac and of the fighting for Chattanooga and Atlanta. Emma’s letters describe life on the home front, illuminating how the war affected her household, town, and wider circle of family and friends in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York. Both Charles Lamborn and Emma Taylor embraced abolitionism and the war’s aim of emancipation. They believed that the pain they suffered during those years purified their love as it also purified the nation. In this volume, Dr. Smith has carefully transcribed, edited, and annotated the Lamborn-Taylor letters, providing important contextual information about both the larger developments in the war and the more localized sphere of Charlie’s and Emma’s lives.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-61146-344-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-61146-345-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
458
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Abbreviations No access
General Introduction No access
Chapter One 15 April 1861–18 August 1861 No access
Chapter Two 19 August 1861–31 December 1861 (and 1 January 1862) No access
Chapter Three 3 February 1862–19 October 1862 No access
Chapter Four 26 October 1862–31 December 1862 No access
Chapter Five 8 January 1863–30 December 1863 No access
Chapter Six 5 January 1864–8 May 186 No access
Chapter Seven 9 May 1864–31 July 1864 No access
Chapter Eight 1 August 1864–20 October 1864 No access
Chapter Nine 23 October 1864–31 December 1864 (and 1 January 1865) No access
Chapter Ten 1 January 1865–17 February 186 No access
