Far, far from home : the wartime letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers
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| Fowler Public Library - NONFICTION | 973.7 Everson | On Shelf |
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Confederate States of America. -- Army. -- South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 3rd.
Simpson, R. W. -- (Richard Wright), -- 1840-1912 -- Correspondence.
Simpson, Taliaferro N., -- 1839-1863 -- Correspondence.
Soldiers -- South Carolina -- Correspondence.
South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
Simpson, R. W. -- (Richard Wright), -- 1840-1912 -- Correspondence.
Simpson, Taliaferro N., -- 1839-1863 -- Correspondence.
Soldiers -- South Carolina -- Correspondence.
South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
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xxi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-300) and index.
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In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home - published here for the first time - read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy.
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Well-educated, intelligent, and thoughtful young men, Dick and Tally Simpson cared deeply for their country, their family, and their comrades-in-arms and wrote frequently to their loved ones in Pendleton, South Carolina, offering firsthand accounts of dramatic events from the battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) in July 1861 to the battle of Chickamauga in September 1863.
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Yet the value of these letters lies not so much in the detailed information they provide as in the overall picture they convey - a picture of how one Southern family, for better or for worse, at home and at the front, coped with the experience of war. These are not wartime reminiscences, but wartime letters, written from the camp, the battlefield, the hospital bed, the picket line - wherever the boys happened to be when they found time to write home.
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Together these letters offer a poignant picture of war as it was actually experienced in the South as the Civil War unfolded.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Simpson, R. W. 1., Simpson, T. N., Everson, G. R., & Simpson, E. H. (1994). Far, far from home: the wartime letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)R. W. 1840-1912. Simpson et al.. 1994. Far, Far From Home: The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)R. W. 1840-1912. Simpson et al.. Far, Far From Home: The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers Oxford University Press, 1994.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Simpson, R. W. 1840-1912., Taliaferro N. Simpson, Guy R Everson, and Edward H Simpson. Far, Far From Home: The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers Oxford University Press, 1994.
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