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Two Years Before the Paddlewheel - Charles F. Gunther, Mississippi River Confederate (Paperback, New)
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Two Years Before the Paddlewheel - Charles F. Gunther, Mississippi River Confederate (Paperback, New)
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Charles F. Gunther is a Yankee ice peddlar who is trapped in the
South at the outbreak of the war. Presented here are two years of
diaries of Gunther's experiences working on the steamboat Rose
Douglas, ferrying Confederate troops and supplies. After the war,
Gunther makes a fortune in the candy business across the street
from Marshal Field's in Chicago, becomes a premier collector and
preserver of Civil War artifacts and Lincoln memorabilia, endows
the Chicago history Museum with its Civil War collection, and goes
on to hold political office as an alderman and City Treasurer of
Chicago. In Two Years Before the Paddlewheel, readers can follow
the day-by-day survival of an ordinary ice merchant turned
Confederate steamboat purser during the Civil War. Gunther's
day-by-day account as a civilian in military service illuminates
the economic, military, social, and personal side of America's
Civil War.
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