Topic: American History / 1860-1900 - War and Unification

 
Dear Sister
The Civil War Letters of the Brothers Gould
Robert F. Harris, John Niflot
978-0-31302-820-5

This eBook may be purchased through the following distributors:

 
Robert F. Harris, John Niflot
ADD COPY 2009 ABC-CLIO
Customer Service 800-368-6868

Dear Sister

The Civil War Letters of the Brothers Gould

Robert F. Harris, John Niflot Robert F. Harris, John Niflot

September 1998

Praeger

Cover
Pages
Volumes
Size
Hardcover
192
1
6 1/8x9 1/4
 
ISBN
eISBN
978-0-275-96260-9
978-0-313-02820-5
Print in Stock
$72.95

add to cart

This collection of 139 letters from six of the seven Gould brothers who left their homes in central New York to fight for the Union Army forms a moving depiction, not only of life on the front lines of the Civil War, but of life on the home front as well. These letters, written to their beloved sister Hannah, span the entire four years of the conflict and run the gamut from initial enlistment to eventual death or discharge. Through the eyes of the Goulds, an immigrant English family struggling to make a new life, one is able to experience this major American historical event with a new understanding.

Unfortunately, Hannah's letters to her brothers at the front are lost forever, victims of the fighting; but the vivid responses of her brothers speak to her own questions and concerns about the crisis that was tearing families apart. With only minor annotation and amendment, these letters tell a most important story of separation and domestic change. They reveal the plight of an individual family in the midst of turmoil.
Preface
Introduction
1861: Charles, Wesley
1862: Charles, Wesley, James, Richard, William
1863: Wesley, James, Richard, William
1864: Wesley, James, Richard, William, George
1865: Wesley, James, Richard, William, George, Henry
Epilogue
Index
Reviews
This compilation of Civil War correspondence is unique....offer(ing) a family view of the war.—Library Journal





Other Titles Of Interest
Music of the Gilded Age Cover ImageMobile, 1865 Cover ImageJames Kirke Paulding Cover ImageIn the Wake of Slavery Cover ImageHistorical Dictionary of the Spanish American War Cover ImageGrant and Lee Cover ImageFrench Newspaper Opinion on the American Civil War Cover ImageFreedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 Cover ImageForgotten Elegance Cover ImageDemocracy in Desperation Cover ImageDecision in the Heartland Cover ImageDaily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900 Cover ImageDaily Life in Immigrant America, 1870-1920 Cover ImageConfederates against the Confederacy Cover ImageCommanders of the Army of the Potomac. Cover ImageClara Barton Cover ImageCivil War Generals Cover ImageCivil War Cover ImageBound with Them in Chains Cover ImageAmericans Remember Their Civil War Cover ImageA Comprehensive Name Index for The American Slave Cover Image
Music of the Gilded Age Cover Image
Music of the Gilded Age

John Ogasapian and N. Lee Orr

2007 / Greenwood

 

Hardcover $49.95

 

 

Mobile, 1865 Cover Image
Mobile, 1865
Last Stand of the Confederacy

Sean Michael O'Brien

2001 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $36.95

 

 

James Kirke Paulding Cover Image
James Kirke Paulding
The Last Republican

Lorman Ratner

1992 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $95.00

 

 

In the Wake of Slavery Cover Image
In the Wake of Slavery
Civil War, Civil Rights, and the Reconstruction of Southern Law

Joseph A. Ranney

2006 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $49.95

 

 

Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War Cover Image
Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War

Donald H. Dyal

1996 / Greenwood

 

Hardcover $131.95

 

 

Grant and Lee Cover Image
Grant and Lee
Victorious American and Vanquished Virginian

Edward H. Bonekemper, lII

2007 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $49.95

 

 

French Newspaper Opinion on the American Civil War Cover Image
French Newspaper Opinion on the American Civil War

George M. Blackburn

1997 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $106.95

 

 

Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876 Cover Image
Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876

Stephen P. Halbrook

1998 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $106.95

 

 

Forgotten Elegance Cover Image
Forgotten Elegance
The Art, Artifacts, and Peculiar History of Victorian and Edwardian Entertaining in America

Wendell Schollander, Wes chollander

2001 / Greenwood

 

Hardcover $62.95

 

 

Democracy in Desperation Cover Image
Democracy in Desperation
The Depression of 1893

Douglas Steeples, David O. Whitten

1998 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $131.95

 

 

Decision in the Heartland Cover Image
Decision in the Heartland
The Civil War in the West

Steven E. Woodworth

2008 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $39.95

 

 

Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900 Cover Image
Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900

Julie Husband, Jim O'Loughlin

2004 / Greenwood

 

Hardcover $55.00

 

 

Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870-1920 Cover Image
Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870-1920

June Granatir Alexander

2007 / Greenwood

 

Hardcover $49.95

 

 

Confederates against the Confederacy Cover Image
Confederates against the Confederacy
Essays on Leadership and Loyalty

Jon L. Wakelyn

2002 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $98.95

 

 

Commanders of the Army of the Potomac. Cover Image
Commanders of the Army of the Potomac.

Hassler

1980 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $96.95

 

 

Clara Barton Cover Image
Clara Barton
In the Service of Humanity

David H. Burton

1995 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $107.95

 

 

Civil War Generals Cover Image
Civil War Generals
Categorical Listings and a Biographical Directory

Spencer

1986 / Greenwood

 

Hardcover $105.00

 

 

Civil War Cover Image
Civil War
People and Perspectives

Lisa Tendrich Frank, Editor

2009 / ABC-CLIO

 

Hardcover $85.00

 

 

Bound with Them in Chains Cover Image
Bound with Them in Chains
A Biographical History of the Antislavery Movement

Pease, ease

1972 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $126.95

 

 

Americans Remember Their Civil War Cover Image
Americans Remember Their Civil War

Barbara Gannon

2015 / Praeger

 

Hardcover $48.00

 

 

A Comprehensive Name Index for The American Slave Cover Image
A Comprehensive Name Index for The American Slave

Howard E. Potts, comp.

1997 / Greenwood

 

Hardcover $138.95