Practical Strangers: The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Stephen Berry (Editor), Angela Esco Elder (Editor), David Wasserboehr ()Series:New Perspectives on the Civil War EraPublish date:2017-06-15Pages:338
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820351025ISBN-10:820351024UPC:9780820351025Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, Historical, United StatesBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCWDGBWXX4
Practical Strangers: The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln
These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved--a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln. It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of both writers in Civil War letter collections to survive, as they have here. Rarer still is how frequently and faithfully the two wrote, given how little they truly knew each other at the start of their exchange. As a...
Series: New Perspectives on the Civil War Era
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820351025ISBN-10:820351024UPC:9780820351025Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, Historical, United StatesBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.84 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCWDGBWXX4
Stephen Berry (Editor)
STEPHEN BERRY is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. His books include House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War; All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South, and Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860 (Georgia). Angela Esco Elder (Editor)
ANGELA ESCO ELDER is the Virginia...
STEPHEN BERRY is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. His books include House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War; All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South, and Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860 (Georgia). Angela Esco Elder (Editor)
ANGELA ESCO ELDER is the Virginia...
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Contributor(s)
Stephen Berry (Editor), Angela Esco Elder (Editor), David Wasserboehr ()
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