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A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence offers a Northern counterpart to the great collection of Southern family letters published in The Children of Pride. Featuring recently discovered historical material, the book offers a selection of correspondence written by two Pennsylvanians, and their family and friends, between 1861 and 1865. The chief letter writers, Charles Lamborn and Emma Taylor, came from well-connected families in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Their correspondence covers the early years of their courtship until their marriage, a period when Charlie was at the warfront. Charlie's correspondence presents information about his military experiences, providing little known details of the early campaigns of the Army of the Potomac and of the fighting for Chattanooga and Atlanta. Emma's letters describe life on the home front, illuminating how the war affected her household, town, and wider circle of family and friends in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York. Both Charles Lamborn and Emma Taylor embraced abolitionism and the war's aim of emancipation. They believed that the pain they suffered during those years purified their love as it also purified the nation. In this volume, Dr. Smith has carefully transcribed, edited, and annotated the Lamborn-Taylor letters, providing important contextual information about both the larger developments in the war and the more localized sphere of Charlie's and Emma's lives.
Contents
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General Introduction
Maps
Part I: 1861
Chapter 1 15 April 1861 - 18 August 1861
Letters 1 - 29
Chapter 2 19 August 1861 - 31 December 1861 (and 1 January 1862)
Letters 30 - 58
Part II: 1862
Chapter 3 3 February 1862 - 19 October 1862
Letters 59 - 87
Chapter 4 26 October 1862 - 31 December 1862
Letters 88 - 99
Part III: 1863
Chapter 5 8 January 1863 - 30 December 1863
Letters 100 - 112
Part IV: 1864
Chapter 6 5 January 1864 - 8 May 1864
Letters 113 - 152
Chapter 7 9 May 1864 - 31 July 1864
Letters 153 - 178
Chapter 8 1 August 1864 - 20 October 1864
Letters 179 - 204
Chapter 9 23 October 1864 - 31 December 1864 (and 1 January 1865)
Letters 205 - 237
Part V: 1865
Chapter 10 1 January 1865 - 17 February 1865
Letters 238 - 252
Chapter 11 11 March 1865 - 27 June 1865
Letters 253 - 269
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