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Practical Strangers The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln / edited by Stephen Berry and Angela Esco Elder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawson, Nathaniel Henry Rhodes, 1829-1895, author.
- Dawson, Elodie Todd, 1840-1877, author.
- Series:
- New perspectives on the Civil War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dawson, Elodie Todd, 1840-1877--Correspondence.
- Dawson, Nathaniel Henry Rhodes, 1829-1895--Correspondence.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
- Confederate States of America.
- Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 4th.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
- Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861.
- Women--Alabama--Social conditions--19th century--Sources.
- Women.
- Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women--Sources.
- Alabama.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate soldier and the woman he loved--a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln.It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of both writers in Civil War letter collections to survive, as they have here.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Editorial Method
- PART 1. To War
- Illustrations, the Todd Family, and the Magnolia Cadets
- PART 2. To the Altar
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-5100-8
- OCLC:
- 989974755
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