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Widows by the Thousand: The Civil War Correspondence of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862–1864 (The Civil War in the West)

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This choice of letters written between Theophilus and Harriet Perry right through the Civil War provides an intimate, firsthand account of the effect of the war on one young couple. Perry used to be an officer with the 28th Texas Cavalry, a unit that campaigned in Arkansas and Louisiana as a part of the division referred to as “Walker’s Greyhounds.” His letters describe his service in a highly literate style that may be strange for Confederate accounts. He documents quite a lot of important events, including his experiences as a detached officer in Arkansas in the winter of 1862–63, the attempt to relieve the siege of Vicksburg, mutiny in his regiment, and the Red River campaign, just before he used to be killed in the battle of Pleasant Hill. Harriet’s writings allow the reader to witness the on a regular basis life of an upper-class woman enduring home front deprivations, facing the hardships and fears of childbearing and childrearing by myself, and coping with other challenges resulting from her husband’s absence.
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