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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Project MUSE Evidence Based Acquisitions (EBA) Project MUSE |
Subject |
Lybarger, Edwin Lewis, 1840-1924 -- Correspondence
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SUBJECT |
Lybarger, Edwin Lewis, 1840-1924 fast |
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
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Women -- Ohio -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
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Letter writing -- Social aspects -- United States -- Sources
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Letter writing -- Social aspects
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Social aspects
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War work
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Women
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Women -- Social conditions
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women -- Sources
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects -- Sources
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Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women -- Sources
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Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects -- Sources
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work -- Sources
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Ohio
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Personal correspondence
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Sources
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letters (correspondence)
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personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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Correspondance privée.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Rhoades, Nancy L., 1915-2007.
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Bailey, Lucy E.
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Lybarger, Edwin Lewis, 1840-1924.
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LC no. |
2009000022 |
ISBN |
9780821443248 |
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0821443240 |
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