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Practical Strangers - The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln (Hardcover)
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Practical Strangers - The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln (Hardcover)
Series: New Perspectives on the Civil War Era Series
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These letters chronicle the wartime courtship of a Confederate
soldier and the woman he loved-a sister-in-law of Abraham Lincoln.
It is a relative rarity for the correspondence of both writers in
Civil War letter collections to survive, as they have here. Rarer
still is how frequently and faithfully the two wrote, given how
little they truly knew each other at the start of their exchange.
As a romantic pair, Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd had no earlier
history; they had barely met when separated by the war. Letters
were their sole lifeline to each other and their sole means of
sharing their hopes and fears for a relationship (and a
Confederacy) they had rashly embraced in the heady, early days of
secession. The letters date from April 1861, when Nathaniel left
for war as a captain in the Fourth Alabama Infantry, through April
1862, when the couple married. During their courtship through
correspondence, Nathaniel narrowly escaped death in battle, faced
suspicions of cowardice, and eventually grew war weary. Elodie had
two brothers die while in Confederate service and felt the full
emotional weight of belonging to the war's most famous divided
family. Her sister Mary not only sided with the Union (as did five
other Todd siblings) but was also married to its commander in
chief. Here is an engrossing story of the Civil War, of Abraham
Lincoln's shattered family, of two people falling in love, of
soldiers and brothers dying nobly on the wrong side of history. The
full Dawson-Todd correspondence comprises more than three hundred
letters. It has been edited for this volume to focus tightly on
their courtship. The complete, annotated text of all of the
letters, with additional supporting material, will be made
available online.
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