Fanny Dunbar Corbusier : recollections of her Army life, 1869-1908 / edited by Patricia Y. Stallard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corbusier, Fanny Dunbar, 1838-1918.

Contributor:

Stallard, Patricia Y.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corbusier, Fanny Dunbar, 1838-1918.

Corbusier, Fanny Dunbar.

Corbusier, William Henry, 1844-1930.

Corbusier, William Henry.

United States. Army.

Women pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Women pioneers.

History.

Officers' spouses.

Officers' spouses--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Pioneers.

Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).

Frontier and pioneer life.

United States. Army--Military life--History--19th century.

United States.

West (U.S.)--Social life and customs--19th century.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--Description and travel.

Southern States--Description and travel.

Southern States.

West (U.S.)--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2003]

Summary:

Born in Baltimore in 1838, Fanny Dunbar grew up in Louisiana to a family who survived the hardships of the Civil War. An intelligent, sensitive woman, Fanny experienced a radical life change when she met William Henry Corbusier, a Yankee officer and army surgeon. Her memoir recounts their subsequent forty-eight-year marriage. The events of Fanny's life are sometimes amusing but more often dramatic. The Corbusiers moved frequently, but Fanny made moving an art form, often selling all the family possessions to avoid high shipping rates. She learned to cope with primitive living conditions and harsh climates. She raised five sons at posts with no schools. But Fanny took her job as a mother seriously, providing her sons with a broad education and a nurturing home. Corbusier's long life and her husband's thirty-nine-year career in the army (recounted in his memoir, Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar) allow the reader to experience the period between the Civil War and World War I in totality, including her exceptional memories of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection. As the recollections of two people whose lives played out against a world panorama, Fanny's and William's memoirs together provide a rare opportunity to examine events of frontier military life from both female and male perspectives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-335) and index.

ISBN:

080613531X

OCLC:

51810818