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Oh, what a loansome time I had : the Civil War letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley / edited by Thomas W. Cutrer.
- Title
- Oh, what a loansome time I had : the Civil War letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley / edited by Thomas W. Cutrer.
- Author
- Moxley, William Morel, -1878
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | E551.5 18th .M68 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 182 p. : geneal. table, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The letters of William and Emily tell the story of the war from the perspective of a working-class farm couple from Coffee County Alabama.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Moxley, William Morel, -1878 > Correspondence
- Moxley, Emily Beck > Correspondence
- Moxley family > Correspondence
- Confederate States of America. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 18th
- 1861-1865
- Soldiers > Alabama > Correspondence
- Alabama > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate
- Alabama > Regimental histories. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States > Regimental histories > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Coffee County (Ala.) > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Personal narratives
- Personal narratives – Confederate
- Records and correspondence
- History.
- Personal narratives.
- Personal narratives – Confederate.
- Records and correspondence.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-171) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "For you and them I am willing to die," 10 June 1861-22 October 1861 -- "Good news as well as bad," 23 October 1861-22 November 1861 -- "How dreadful is war," 23 November 1861-28 December 1861 -- "You have no idea how much trouble this settlement is in," 1 January 1862-7 February 1862 -- "Oh, what a sudden death," 10 February 1862-25 February 1862 -- "As well as common," 28 February 1862-2 April 1862 -- "It really seems that we have worse luck than any other set of men in the known world," 3 May 1862-17 December 1864 -- "A prettie wild country," 6 September 1870-20 April 1891.
- ISBN
- 0817311181
- LCCN
- ^^2001004114
- OCLC
- 47705915
- SCSB-11879660
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library