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    Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
    Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
    Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
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    Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)

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    The following book is a collection of letter correspondence between several individuals who fought for the Union during the American Civil War. Of the many thousand letters that must have been written by these people to their Northern homes, those of one small group only are represented by the extracts here printed. The writers were New Englanders and ardent anti-slavery people; W. C. G. and C. P. W. were Harvard men just out of college, H. W. was a sister of the latter. A few of the later letters were written by two other Massachusetts men, T. E. R., a Yale graduate of 1859, and F. H., who remained on the islands longer than the three just mentioned. The extracts have been arranged in chronological order, except in a few cases where chronology has seemed less important than subject-matter. They tell a complete story, the greater part of which falls within the period of the Civil War. They give a vivid notion of the life from the midst of which they were written; of the flat, marsh-riddled country, in which few Northerners saw any lasting charm; of the untidy, down-at-the-heels plantations; of the "people," wards of the nation, childish, irritating, endlessly amusing; of the daily toil of Northern men in managing farms and of Northern women in managing households under Southern and war-time conditions; of the universal preoccupation with the needs of the Black people; of the friendly interchange of primitive hospitality; of the underlying sense in the writers' minds of romantic contrast between their own to-day and the yesterday of the planters,—or a possible to-morrow of the planters. It is not with matters military or political that these letters deal. They record the day to day experiences of the housekeeper, the teacher, the superintendent of labor, and the landowner. For this reason they form a new contribution to the history of the Port Royal Experiment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 10, 2019
    ISBN4064066224677
    Letters from Port Royal: Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)

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