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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. Rarer still is how frequently and faithfully the two wrote, given how little they truly knew each other at the start of their exchange. As a romantic pair, Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd had no earlier history; they had barely met when separated by the war. Letters were their sole lifeline to each other and their sole means of sharing their hopes and fears for a relationship (and a Confederacy) they had rashly embraced in the heady, early days of secession. The letters date from April 1861, when Nathaniel left for war as a captain in the Fourth Alabama Infantry, through April 1862, when the couple married. During their courtship through correspondence, Nathaniel narrowly escaped death in battle, faced suspicions of cowardice, and eventually grew war weary. Elodie had two brothers die while in Confederate service and felt the full emotional weight of belonging to the war's most famous divided family. Her sister Mary not only sid

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Confederate States of America / Army;Confederate States of America. Army;Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 4th.;Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 4th;Berry, Stephen;Dawson, Elodie Todd;Dawson, Nathaniel Henry Rhodes;Elder, Angela;Wasserboehr, David

Publisher

Georgia University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820351025

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, History, Humanities