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Title Wanted--correspondence : women's letters to a Union soldier / edited by Nancy L. Rhoades and Lucy E. Bailey
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 410 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Bold script and war work -- Women's letters to Edwin Lewis Lybarger, 1862-67 -- Appendix: Biographical sketch of Edwin Lewis Lybarger
Summary Wanted-Correspondence is a unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front. The letters reveal fascinating details of the lives of mostly young, single women-friends, acquaintances, love interests, and strangers who responded to one Union soldier's advertisement for cor respondents. Almost all of the women who responded to Lieutenant Edwin Lewis Lybarger's lonely-hearts newspaper advertisement lived in Ohio and supported the Union. Lybar
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Lybarger, Edwin Lewis, 1840-1924 -- Correspondence
SUBJECT Lybarger, Edwin Lewis, 1840-1924 fast
Subject Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
Women -- Ohio -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
Letter writing -- Social aspects -- United States -- Sources
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- General.
Letter writing -- Social aspects
Social aspects
War work
Women
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women -- Sources
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects -- Sources
Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women -- Sources
Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects -- Sources
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work -- Sources
Subject Ohio
United States
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
Sources
letters (correspondence)
personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Form Electronic book
Author Rhoades, Nancy L., 1915-2007.
Bailey, Lucy E.
Lybarger, Edwin Lewis, 1840-1924.
LC no. 2009000022
ISBN 9780821443248
0821443240