This Infernal War: The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard - Hardcover
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This Infernal War: The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard
Among collections of letters written between American soldiers and their spouses, the Civil War correspondence of William and Jane Standard stands out for conveying the complexity of the motives and experiences of Union soldiers and their families. The Standards of Lewiston in Fulton County, Illinois, were antiwar Copperheads. Their attitudes toward Abraham Lincoln, "Black Republicans," and...
Timothy Mason Roberts is professor of history at Western Illinois University in Macomb, about thirty miles from the Standards' Civil War home. A teacher and scholar of antebellum and Civil War-era America and the role of America in the world, he is the author of Distant Revolutions: 1848 and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism and coeditor of American Exceptionalism (4 volumes).
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