Delivered Under Fire : Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail /

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""Delivered Under Fire" tells the harrowing story of a U.S. Post Office special agent who risked his life to protect and transfer some of the most personal and valuable connections between war and home"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hooper, Candice Shy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Markland, Absalom H., > -1888.
United States. > Post Office Department.
United States. > Army.
United States. > Post Office Department > Officials and employees > Biography.
United States. > Army > Postal service.
Postal service.
Letter carriers.
Employees.
Armed Forces > Postal service.
Facteurs (Postes) > États-Unis > Biographies.
Letter carriers > United States > Biography.
United States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Service de la poste.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Postal service.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: April 14, 1865
  • A Boy of the Buffalo Trace: 1825-55
  • A Man in Search of a Mission: 1856-61
  • Absalom Markland, Special Agent: 1861-62
  • "An Honored & Favored Man": February-September 1862
  • "The Flood of Letters": September 1862-64
  • "Twenty Tons of Mail": 1864
  • "Trains Have Stopped Running, Except for the Mail": January-April 1865
  • "A Mark of Friendship and Esteem": April 1865-November 1868
  • "Our Continued Services Together": 1868-71
  • The "Colonel" Becomes a "General": 1872-84
  • A Man in Search of Himself: 1885-88
  • Epilogue: 1889-Today.

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