A Quiet Corner of the War The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin Oconomowoc Wisconsin 1862 1863 1st Edition by Gilbert Claflin, Esther Claflin, Judy Cook ISBN 0299294803 9780299294809

A Quiet Corner of the War The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin Oconomowoc Wisconsin 1862 1863 1st Edition by Gilbert Claflin, Esther Claflin, Judy Cook – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0299294803, 9780299294809
Full download A Quiet Corner of the War The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin Oconomowoc Wisconsin 1862 1863 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 0299294803 
ISBN 13: 9780299294809
Author: Gilbert Claflin, Esther Claflin, Judy Cook

In 2002, Judy Cook discovered a packet of letters written by her great-great-grandparents, Gilbert and Esther Claflin, during the American Civil War. An unexpected bounty, these letters from 1862–63 offer visceral witness to the war, recounting the trials of a family separated. Gilbert, an articulate and cheerful forty-year-old farmer, was drafted into the Union Army and served in the Thirty-Fourth Wisconsin Infantry garrisoned in western Kentucky along the Mississippi. Esther had married Gilbert when she was fifteen; now a woman with two teenage sons, she ran the family farm near Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in Gilbert’s absence.            

In his letters, Gilbert writes about food, hygiene, rampant desertions by drafted men, rebel guerrilla raids, and pastimes in the daily life of a soldier. His comments on interactions with Confederate prisoners and ex-slaves before and after the Emancipation Proclamation reveal his personal views on monumental events. Esther shares in her letters the challenges and joys of maintaining the farm, accounts of their boys Elton and Price, concerns about finances and health, and news of their local community and extended family. Esther’s experiences provide insight into family, farm, and village life in the wartime North, an often overlooked aspect of Civil War history.             Judy Cook has made the letters accessible to a wider audience by providing historical context with notes and appendixes. The volume includes a foreword by Civil War historian Keith S. Bohannon.

A Quiet Corner of the War The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin Oconomowoc Wisconsin 1862 1863 1st Table of contents:

1. Foreword by Keith Bohannon
2. Preface
3. Time Line
4. Prologue
5. The Letters
6. Epilogue

People also search for A Quiet Corner of the War The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin Oconomowoc Wisconsin 1862 1863 1st:

a quiet corner of the war the civil war letters
    
a civil war letter
    
a civil war soldiers letter home worksheet answers
    
a civil war soldiers letter home
    
letters of a civil war nurse answer key

Tags: Gilbert Claflin, Esther Claflin, Judy Cook, Quiet Corner, Civil War