Yankee Correspondence Civil War Letters Between New England Soldiers and the Home Front
University of Virginia Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. As new in dust jacket. Review copy with publiher's letter laid in. Hardcover. First printing. x+ 169 pp. with index. Letters between Union soldiers and their New England families, many not previously published, speak of hardships of the war from frustrations with the Army, home-front sufferings, and government policies. They are grouped into six major themes: the military experience, the meaning of the war, , views of the South, politics on the home front, personal sacrifices of war, and the correspondence of one family (The Morse family of Woodbury, Vermont). As New / as new. Item #E20550
ISBN: 9780813916682
Price: $14.95