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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.
Temas:
Lybarger, Edwin Lewis, > 1840-1924 > Correspondence.
Lybarger, Edwin Lewis, > 1840-1924.
1800 - 1899
Women > United States > Social conditions > 19th century > Sources.
Women > Ohio > Social conditions > 19th century > Sources.
Letter writing > Social aspects > United States > Sources.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle > Sources.
Femmes > Ohio > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle > Sources.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > General.
Letter writing > Social aspects.
Social aspects.
War work.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women > Sources.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects > Sources.
Ohio > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women > Sources.
Ohio > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects > Sources.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > War work > Sources.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social > Sources.
Ohio > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Femmes > Sources.
Ohio > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Aspect social > Sources.
Ohio.
United States.
History.
Personal correspondence.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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

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