Yours in filial regards : the Civil War letters of a Texas family /
The Love Family Letters archive displays a vast communication network consisting of writers on both home and war fronts spanning the entirety of the Civil War. The inclusion of domestic writers in conjunction with soldiers from varying units of the C.S.A. provides a vital link between two perspectiv...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Fort Worth :
TCU Press,
[2015].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | The Love Family Letters archive displays a vast communication network consisting of writers on both home and war fronts spanning the entirety of the Civil War. The inclusion of domestic writers in conjunction with soldiers from varying units of the C.S.A. provides a vital link between two perspectives of the war and an inside look into the Loves' struggle to maintain family ties. Seventy-seven of the letters are written by the soldiering Love brothers, Cyrus, Sam, James and John Love, and brother-in-law John Karner to their parents and sisters in Texas. In addition, the collection preserves three letters circulated between women on the home front, with authors including Fannie Love and Tennessee Love. The volume presented here is only a representative sample of a much larger body of epistles. Absent, sadly, are letters which were received and not preserved, those which are fragmented or excerpted, and the untold number of letters which were miscarried, captured or otherwise lost in the confusion of war. |
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| Item Description: | Contains the text of letters found in the Love Family Letters archive, housed in the Special Collections Department of the Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University, as well as an introduction which provides commentary. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780875656120 (alk. paper) 0875656129 (alk. paper) |