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A Quiet Corner of the War - The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1862-1863 (Hardcover, New)
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A Quiet Corner of the War - The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1862-1863 (Hardcover, New)
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In 2002, Judy Cook discovered a packet of letters written by her
great-great-grandparents, Gilbert and Esther Claflin, during the
American Civil War. An unexpected bounty, these letters from
1862-63 offer visceral witness to the war, recounting the trials of
a family separated. Gilbert, an articulate and cheerful
forty-year-old farmer, was drafted into the Union Army and served
in the Thirty-Fourth Wisconsin Infantry garrisoned in western
Kentucky along the Mississippi. Esther had married Gilbert when she
was fifteen; now a woman with two teenage sons, she ran the family
farm near Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in Gilbert's absence. In his
letters, Gilbert writes about food, hygiene, rampant desertions by
drafted men, rebel guerrilla raids, and pastimes in the daily life
of a soldier. His comments on interactions with Confederate
prisoners and ex-slaves before and after the Emancipation
Proclamation reveal his personal views on monumental events. Esther
shares in her letters the challenges and joys of maintaining the
farm, accounts of their boys Elton and Price, concerns about
finances and health, and news of their local community and extended
family. Esther's experiences provide insight into family, farm, and
village life in the wartime North, an often overlooked aspect of
Civil War history. Judy Cook has made the letters accessible to a
wider audience by providing historical context with notes and
appendixes. The volume includes a foreword by Civil War historian
Keith S. Bohannon.
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