I Remain Yours Common Lives in Civil War Letters |
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Author:
| Hager, Christopher |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-73764-8 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2018 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $42.00 |
Book Description:
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For men in the Union and Confederate armies and their families at home, letter writing was the sole means to communicate. Taking pen to paper was a new and daunting task, but Christopher Hager shows how ordinary people made writing their own, and how they in turn transformed the culture of letters into a popular, democratic mode of communication.
For men in the Union and Confederate armies and their families at home, letter writing was the sole means to communicate. Taking pen to paper was a new and daunting task, but Christopher Hager shows how ordinary people made writing their own, and how they in turn transformed the culture of letters into a popular, democratic mode of communication.