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Yours in filial regards : the Civil War letters of a Texas family / Kassia Waggoner and Adam Nemmers, editors.

Van Pelt Library E467 .L682 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Love (Family :, 1828 : Limestone County, Tex. : Love, James Marshall, 1805-1876), author.
Contributor:
Waggoner, Kassia, editor.
Nemmers, Adam, editor.
Mary Couts Burnett Library.
Standardized Title:
Correspondence. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Love family--Correspondence.
Love family.
Love family--Archives.
Soldiers--Texas--Correspondence.
Soldiers.
History.
Social aspects.
Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
Texas.
Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
Genre:
Archives.
History.
Personal narratives -- Confederate.
Records and correspondence.
Correspondence.
Biographies.
Personal correspondence.
Personal narratives.
Physical Description:
xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2015]
Summary:
"The Love Family Letters archive displays a vast communication network consisting of writers on both home and war fronts spanning the entirety of the Civil War. The inclusion of domestic writers in conjunction with soldiers from varying units of the C.S.A. provides a vital link between two perspectives of the war and an inside look into the Loves' struggle to maintain family ties.... Seventy-seven of the letters are written by the soldiering Love brothers; Cyrus, Sam, James, and John Love, and brother-in-law John Karner; to their parents and sisters in Texas. In addition, the collection preserves three letters circulated between women on the home front, with authors including Fannie Love and Tennessee Love.... The volume presented here is only a representative sample of a much larger body of epistles; absent, sadly, are letters which were received and not preserved, those which are fragmented or excerpted, and the untold number of letters which were miscarried, captured, or otherwise lost in the confusion of war."--Introduction.
Notes:
Contains the text of letters found in the Love Family Letters archive, housed in the Special Collections Department of the Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University, as well as an introduction which provides commentary.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-244) and index.
ISBN:
9780875656120
0875656129
OCLC:
902803180

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