Title While father is away : the Civil War letters of William H. Bradbury / edited by Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt ; compiled by Kassandra R. Chaney

Published Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2003] ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 386 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map Contents My dear wife and children: September 8, 1862-November 14, 1862 -- If we go to England: November 20, 1862-January 23, 1863 -- Stand on your dignity: February 5, 1863-March 26, 1863 -- Chief of the topographical engineers: March 31, 1863-May 31, 1863 -- More compliments than coppers: June 4, 1863-August 9, 1863 -- Bully for us: August 14,1863-October 13, 1863 -- After the loaves and the fishes: February 5, 1864-April 1, 1864 -- I don't like this field work: April 1,1864-July 27, 1864 -- Let it go to thunder: August 12, 1864-September 20, 1864 -- All I live for: September 22,1864-November 24,1864 184 -- Everybody has the blues sometimes: December 28, 1864-February 8, 1865 -- The Federals in the southwest: February 10, 1865-May 1,1865 -- Headquarters of the Cumberland: May 13, 1865-July 1,1865 -- General Fisk and the Freedmen's Bureau: July 5, 1865-August 30, 1865 -- To clasp you once more in my arms: September 2,1865-December 15, 1865 -- Afterword: the Bradburys postwar reconstruction, 1866-1900 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-372) and index Notes Print version record Subject Bradbury, William H., 1829-1900 -- Correspondence. United States. Army -- Staffs -- Correspondence. United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 129th (1862-1865) British Americans -- Correspondence. Businessmen -- Illinois -- Livingston County -- Correspondence. Fathers -- United States -- Correspondence. Journalists -- United States -- Correspondence. Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence. Livingston County (Ill.) -- Biography. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. Genre/Form Biography. History. Personal narratives. Records and correspondence. Autobiographies. Personal correspondence. Personal narratives. Form Electronic book Author Bohrnstedt, Jennifer Cain. Chaney, Kassandra R. ISBN 081315765X (electronic bk.) 9780813157658 (electronic bk.) (acid-free paper) (acid-free paper)

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