Writing & Fighting the Civil War: Soldier Letters from the Battlefront (Soldier Correspondence to the New York Sunday Mercury)

Styple, William B. (editor) with foreword by Edwin C. Bearss and epilogue by Robert Lee Hodge

ISBN 10: 1883926130 / ISBN 13: 9781883926137

Published by Belle Grove Publishing Company, 2004

About this Item

Inscribed by the editor (Styple) on the title page from Gettysburg. A few random sentences with highlighting; otherwise fine.

Seller Inventory # 008830

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing & Fighting the Civil War: Soldier Letters from the Battlefront (Soldier Correspondence to the New York Sunday Mercury)
• Publisher: Belle Grove Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1883926130
• ISBN 13: 9781883926137
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

500 Union Soldier Letters from the Battlefield. Eager for first-hand news from the battlefield, the editors of the New York Sunday Mercury asked the departing volunteers to write and "inform us of any events of interest." This simple request for news generated the largest and most impressively detailed collection of journalist correspondence ever written during the Civil War. For four long and bloody years, hundreds of soldiers wrote thousands of letters to the Sunday Mercury creating a unique history of the great American Conflict.