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Letters from Lee's Army

Susan Leigh Blackford Charles Minor Blackford

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  • 312 sidor
  • 1998
Charles Minor Blackford was a Virginia aristocrat who fought for the Confederacy as much out of obligation to his class and region as for political reasons. Letters from Lees Army presents the correspondence between Captain Blackford and his wife, Susan Leigh Blackford, during the war. While Captain Blackford writes of the rigors of campaigningthe dramatically bad food, the constant dysentery, the cold and wetwe see the stoic Susan Blackford gradually relying less and less on her husband to make decisions. During the course of the war Susan Blackford lost her home, three children, and her belongings to the struggle, all without the camaraderie and sustaining sense of purpose known to the soldier. These letters emphasize the stresses that war and separation can place on a marriage. Blackford enlisted in the Second Virginia Cavalry at the outset of the war and in 1863 was posted to Longstreets Corps. Most of his service was in northern Virginia around the Rappahannock and the Rapidan Rivers, in the Shenandoah Valley, and with Lees army at Gettysburg. In 1864 Blackford went west with Longstreets army to Chattanooga, and he returned with Longstreet for the wars final days.
  • Författare: Susan Leigh Blackford, Charles Minor Blackford
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780803261495
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 312
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1998-11-01
  • Förlag: University of Nebraska Press