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Wanted--correspondence : women's letters to a Union soldier /

Wanted-Correspondence is a unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front. The letters reveal fascinating details of the lives of mostly young, sin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rhoades, Nancy L., 1915-2007, Bailey, Lucy E., Lybarger, Edwin Lewis, 1840-1924
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Wanted-Correspondence is a unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front. The letters reveal fascinating details of the lives of mostly young, single women-friends, acquaintances, love interests, and strangers who responded to one Union soldier's advertisement for cor respondents. Almost all of the women who responded to Lieutenant Edwin Lewis Lybarger's lonely-hearts newspaper advertisement lived in Ohio and supported the Union. Lybar.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 410 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780821443248
0821443240