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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.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dawson, Nathaniel Henry Rhodes, 1829-1895, author.
Dawson, Elodie Todd, 1840-1877, author.
Contributor:
Elder, Angela Esco, editor.
Berry, Stephen William, editor.
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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