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Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had : The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moxley, Emily.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moxley, William Morel, -1878--Correspondence.
- Moxley, William Morel.
- Moxley, Emily Beck--Correspondence.
- Moxley, Emily Beck.
- Moxley family--Correspondence.
- Moxley family.
- Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 18th.
- Confederate States of America.
- Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Coffee County (Ala.)--Biography.
- Soldiers--Alabama--Correspondence.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Soldiers.
- Alabama.
- United States.
- Coffee County (Ala.).
- Local Subjects:
- Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Coffee County (Ala.)--Biography.
- Moxley family--Correspondence.
- Moxley, Emily Beck--Correspondence.
- Moxley, William Morel, -1878--Correspondence.
- Soldiers--Alabama--Correspondence.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Most surviving correspondence of the Civil War period was written by members of a literate, elite class; few collections exist in which the woman's letters to her soldier husband have been preserved. Here, in the exchange between William and Emily Moxley, a working-class farm couple from Coffee County, Alabama, we see vividly an often-neglected aspect of the Civil War experience: the hardships of civilian life on the home front.Emily's moving letters to her husband, startling in their immediacy and detail, chronicle such difficulties as a desperate lack of food and clothing
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "For you and them I am willing to die," 10 June 1861-22 October 1861; 2. "Good news as well as bad," 23 October 1861-22 November 1861; 3. "How dreadful is war," 23 November 1861-28 December 1861; 4. "You have no idea how much trouble this settlement is in," 1 January 1862-7 February 1862; 5. "Oh, what a sudden death," 10 February 1862-25 February 1862; 6. "As well as common," 28 February 1862-2 April 1862; 7. "It really seems that we have worse luck than any other set of men in the known world," 3 May 1862-17 December 1864
- 8. "A prettie wild country," 6 September 1870-20 April 1891Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-1329-X
- OCLC:
- 861080518
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