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A rare glimpse into the life of one young man who chose not to
fight Nearly three million white men of military age remained in
the North during the Civil War, some attending institutions of
higher learning. College life during the Civil War has received
remarkably little close attention, however, in part because of the
lack of published collections of letters and diaries by students
during the war. In Untouched by the Conflict, Jonathan W. White and
Daniel Glenn seek to fill that gap by presenting the unabridged
letters of Singleton Ashenfelter, a student at Dickinson College in
Pennsylvania, to his closest friend at home near Philadelphia.
Ashenfelter was arrogant, erudite, witty, impulsive,
self-interested, reflective, and deeply intellectual. His voice is
like none other in the published primary source literature of the
Civil War era. Following the war, he became a newspaper editor and
the US attorney for the Territory of New Mexico. The letters'
recipient, Samuel W. Pennypacker, went on to become the 23rd
governor of Pennsylvania. Covering the years 1862-1865,
Ashenfelter's correspondence offers a rich, introspective view into
the concerns and experiences of a young, middle-class white man who
chose not to enlist. His letters reveal, too, the inner world of a
circle of friends while they mature into adulthood as he touches on
topics of interest to scholars of 19th-century America, including
romance, religion, education, social life, friendship, family, and
the war.
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