Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana : A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition /
In July of 1862, Union Lieutenant Stephen Spalding wrote a long letter from his post in Algiers, Louisiana, to his former college roommate. Equally fascinating and unsettling for modern readers, the comic cynicism of the young soldier's correspondence offers an unusually candid and intimate acc...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Spalding's letter
- Promotion and self-promotion: Spalding and the Seventh New York State Militia
- Racial hierarchy: Spalding and Jim
- Masculinity: Spalding's Fourth of July
- Rank and insubordination: Spalding and the awkward court-martial
- Facing death: Spalding and the unfunny joke
- Spalding's premonition
- Conclusion: Spalding and the other letters.