Fanny & Joshua : the enigmatic lives of Frances Caroline Adams & Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain / Diane Monroe Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Diane Monroe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generals--United States--Biography.

Generals.

Chamberlain, Frances Adams, 1825-1905.

Chamberlain, Frances Adams.

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914.

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence.

United States. Army--Biography.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

New ed.

Other Title:

Fanny and Joshua

Place of Publication:

Lebanon, NH : University Press of New England, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The intimate history of Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and his wife, Frances Caroline Adams

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 The Minister's Daughter; 2 The Raising of an Idealist; 3 ""If You Could Love Me So""; 4 To a ""Land of Strangers""; 5 ""Be Sure & Burn This""; 6 ""Unless Somebody Cares & Loves Me All the Time""; 7 ""Ready to be Married""; 8 ""Light & Life""; 9 ""As Tho' in a Bad Dream""; 10 ""Mightier Things Than Personal Griefs""; 11 ""Where Duty Called Me""; 12 ""There Can Be No Home without CountryNo Life without Honor""; 13 ""Providence Will Both Open & Guide My Way""; 14 ""We Have Looked Our Sorrows Fairly in the Face""

15 ""In the Midst of All the Uproar""16 ""Where Worries Cannot Reach You""; 17 ""Old Bowdoin""; 18 ""All Doing Good Work in Our Way""; 19 ""Counted Out""; 20 ""To Transform the Wilderness into a Garden""; 21 ""A Blessing Somewhere Yet to be Given & Received""; 22 ""An Inextinguishable Instinct to Go Forward""; 23 ""No Responsibilities, No Duties""; 24 ""We Have Been So Long Spared to Each Other""; 25 ""We Pass Now Quickly From Each Other's Sight""; 26 ""Looking On & Looking Back""; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611684407

1611684404

OCLC:

843191626