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I Remain Yours - Common Lives in Civil War Letters (Hardcover)
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I Remain Yours - Common Lives in Civil War Letters (Hardcover)
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When North and South went to war, millions of American families
endured their first long separation. For men in the armies-and
their wives, children, parents, and siblings at home-letter writing
was the sole means to communicate. Yet for many of these Union and
Confederate families, taking pen to paper was a new and daunting
task. I Remain Yours narrates the Civil War from the perspective of
ordinary people who had to figure out how to salve the emotional
strain of war and sustain their closest relationships using only
the written word. Christopher Hager presents an intimate history of
the Civil War through the interlaced stories of common soldiers and
their families. The previously overlooked words of a carpenter from
Indiana, an illiterate teenager from Connecticut, a grieving mother
in the mountains of North Carolina, and a blacksmith's daughter on
the Iowa prairie reveal through their awkward script and expression
the personal toll of war. Is my son alive or dead? Returning soon
or never? Can I find words for the horrors I've seen or the
loneliness I feel? Fear, loss, and upheaval stalked the lives of
Americans straining to connect the battlefront to those they left
behind. Hager shows how relatively uneducated men and women made
this new means of communication their own, turning writing into an
essential medium for sustaining relationships and a sense of
belonging. Letter writing changed them and they in turn transformed
the culture of letters into a popular, democratic mode of
communication.
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