Yours Till Death : Civil War Letters of John W. Cotton /

""These letters from a yeoman farmer in the Confederate Army to his wife in Coosa County, Alabama, will be of interest to historians not only for the light shed upon the life of the Confederate soldier, but also for frequent allusions to rural life and the operation of the farm in Cotton&#...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cotton, John Weaver, 1831-1866
Otros Autores: Griffith, Lucille, 1905-1993 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Montevallo, Ala.] : University of Alabama Press, 1951.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cotton, John Weaver, > 1831-1866.
Cotton, John Weaver, > 1831-1866 > Correspondence.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
History > Civil War > Southern States.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Secession) > Recits personnels des confederes.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate.
Recits personnels.
Personal narratives.
Personal correspondence.
Personal narratives > Confederate.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:""These letters from a yeoman farmer in the Confederate Army to his wife in Coosa County, Alabama, will be of interest to historians not only for the light shed upon the life of the Confederate soldier, but also for frequent allusions to rural life and the operation of the farm in Cotton's absence. He enlisted at Pinckneyville, Alabama, on April 1, 1862, and was paroled at Talladega on May 25, 1865. During the intervening years he saw action in Tennessee and Kentucky, in the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, briefly again in Tennessee, then in Georgia against the forces of Sherman, moving finally into
Descripción Física:1 online resource (144 pages): portrait
ISBN:9780817389321

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