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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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Additional Authors
  • Moxley, Emily Beck
  • Cutrer, Thomas W.
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