To My Beloved Wife and Boy at Home: The Letters and Diaries of Orderly Sergeant John F.L. Hartwell
Hartwell, John F. L.
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John Hartwell, a 31-year-old married house carpenter from Herkimer, New York, enlisted in the Union Army on 23 August 1862, over his wife's objections. For the next two and one-half years, Hartwell filled six diaries and one hundred one letters describing his journey through hell. In 1989, Professor Ann Hartwell Britton discovered Hartwell's hoard of letters and five of the diaries among family papers in Florida and Massachusetts. Britton and her law faculty colleague Thomas J. Reed have, in this volume, copied, annotated, and edited Hartwell's letters and diaries for use by scholars of the Middle Period and by general readers interested in the common soldier's understanding of the War between the States.
Hartwell lived through every major battle of the Army of the Potomac from Antietam to the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House and Second Cold Harbor. Since Hartwell was a draftsman as well as a builder, he carefully mapped his regiment's actions in some of those battles, as well as his winter quarters in 1863-64.
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Title: To My Beloved Wife and Boy at Home: The ...
Publisher: UNKNO
Publication Date: 1742
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TO MY BELOVED WIFE AND BOY AT HOME, The Letters and Diaries of Orderly Sergeant John F.L. Hartwell (inscribed & signed)
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, 1997
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ISBN 13: 9780838636756
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A collection of letters and diaries written by a house carpenter who served in the Union Army's 124th New York Volunteer Infantry, the collection detailing "his journey through hell," otherwise known as the War between the States, or the U.S. Civil War. Inscription on title page reads: "To Xxxxx Xxxxx--/It was a real pleasure/meeting you./Ann (Hartwell) Britton". Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 411 pages (including "Appendix: Notations from John F. Hartwell's Diary", notes, bibliography, index), illustrated. A bit cocked, light wear to corners/spine ends, in dust jacket w/edgewear, light chipping to corners/spine ends, impressions/scratches/surface wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Editor. Book. Seller Inventory # 019614
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To My Beloved Wife and Boy at Home: The Letters and Diaries of Orderly Sergeant John F.L.Hartwell
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S., 1997
ISBN 10: 0838636756
ISBN 13: 9780838636756
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A beautiful, crisp, clean hardcover on near fine condition; faint shelf wear. DJ in near fine condition with faint edge wear, now in protective mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 063276