Love and Valor: The Intimate Civil War Letters between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner

Ritner, Captain Jacob B. , edited by Charles F. Larimer

ISBN 10: 0967386306 / ISBN 13: 9780967386300

Published by Sigourney Press, Western Spring, IL, 2000

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Illus. , "1st Iowa Infantry, 25th Iowa Infantry, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee"; 453 pages. Seller Inventory # 33125

Bibliographic Details

Title: Love and Valor: The Intimate Civil War ...

Publisher: Sigourney Press, Western Spring, IL

Publication Date: 2000

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Throughout the Civil War, Captain Jacob Ritner and his wife exchanged an extraordinary series of letters vividly depicting both life on the battlefield and at the home front.

Jacob recounts in compelling detail most of the major military events of the Western Theater: Wilson's Creek, Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Atlanta Campaign including the Battle of Atlanta, Sherman's March to the Sea, the Occupation of Savannah, and the Carolina's Campaign. Emeline movingly records the lives of those left behind.

Theirs is also the story of a family of Iowa abolitionists whose patriarch wrote on the day of the Emancipation Proclamation: "... if we as a nation refuse to acknowledge the rights of the black man then it may cost us our national existence."

Here is an unforgettable saga, a part of our national legacy.

From the Publisher:

Sigourney Press, Inc. is a new publisher that will specialize in Civil War, Iowa, and military history. Love and Valor is our first publication.