Dear Friend Anna: The Civil War Letters of a Common Soldier from Maine (Signed first edition, first impression)
Language: English
Published by University of Maine Press, Maine, 1992
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
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Very good in a good dust jacket. Octavo. x + 161pp. Includes 21 black and white photographs. Signed first edition, first impression. Signed by the author to the first free end paper. This book is in very good condition. The blue cloth boards are very good. The top and bottom edges of both the front and back boards are lightly sunned. The boards are slightly bowed. The front and rear pastedown pages, free end papers and closed text block edges show some evidence of very light foxing. Otherwise, the pages are clean and the binding is tight. The dust jacket is in good condition, with some light bumping to the edges and one closed 7mm tear to the bottom edge of the back of the dust jacket. The dust jacket is unclipped.
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- Title
- Dear Friend Anna: The Civil War Letters of a Common Soldier from Maine (Signed first edition, first impression)
- Author
- Edwards, Abial Hall; Kallgren, Beverly Hayes; Crouthamel, James L.; Edwards, Anna
- Publisher
- University of Maine Press, Maine
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0891010793
- ISBN 13
- 9780891010791
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 492 grams
- Dimensions
- 15.7 centimeters width by 23.5 centimeters height by 1.8 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- American Civil War, American History, Autobiography/Biography, History, Military History, Signed Books
Throughout those years, Edwards maintained a steady correspondence with Anna Lucinda Conant of Portland, Maine, in a relationship that slowly deepened into warm affection and eventual marriage.
While Edwards was a "common soldier," never rising above the rank of corporal, the diversity of his Civil War experience was remarkable. The war took him into the Shenandoah Valley under Nathaniel Banks and to the bloody battle of Antietam. In 1863 he served in Louisiana as part of the Red River campaign, later returning to the Shenandoah Valley under Philip Sheridan. With the war over, he served on garrison duty in occupied South Carolina for a year before being mustered out.
During those years, he experienced danger, illness and discomfort, boredom, anguish at the destructive violence of war, and deep sorrow at the loss of friends. It was a solace to write home to Anna, and he did so frequently. To her he described these experiences and many more: meeting Ulysses S. Grant, catching a glimpse of Abraham Lincoln, riding proudly at the front of his regiment in the Grand Review at war's end.
Anna Conant preserved Abial Edwards's letters and other papers; many years following her death her grandson discovered them in a family barn. The Civil War letters are published here in full, with careful attention to reproducing Edwards's exact wording, spelling, and punctuation. Historian James L. Crouthamel places the letters in historical context with introductory comments and explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading.
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