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Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story
Peter Messent
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Description for Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story
Paperback. Twichell's letters to his Connecticut family rank him alongside the Civil War's most literate and insightful firsthand chroniclers of life on the road, in battle, and in camp, as a noncombatant. Twichell writes about politics and slavery and the theological and cultural divide between him and his men. Editor(s): Messent, Peter. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade. A middle-class New England Protestant, Twichell served for three years in a regiment manned mostly by poor Irish American Catholics. This selection of Twichell's letters to his Connecticut family will rank him alongside the Civil War's most literate and insightful firsthand chroniclers of life on the road, in battle, and in camp. As a noncombatant, he at once observed and participated in the momentous events of the Peninsula and Wilderness Campaigns and at the Second Bull Run, as well ... Read more
In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade. A middle-class New England Protestant, Twichell served for three years in a regiment manned mostly by poor Irish American Catholics. This selection of Twichell's letters to his Connecticut family will rank him alongside the Civil War's most literate and insightful firsthand chroniclers of life on the road, in battle, and in camp. As a noncombatant, he at once observed and participated in the momentous events of the Peninsula and Wilderness Campaigns and at the Second Bull Run, as well ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820340876
SKU
V9780820340876
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About Peter Messent
Peter Messent is a professor of modern American literature at the University of Nottingham. Steve Courtney, an independent scholar, has worked for nearly three decades as a journalist and has had several positions at the Hartford Courant.
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