Description
The chosen correspondence of 3 New England figures throughout the American Civil War (Andrew Jackson Bean [1828-1919] of Maine, his sister Eliza Howard Bean Foster [1835-1867], and her husband Henry Charles Foster [1834-1864] of Vermont and Massachusetts) is presented within the context in their time and culture, in conjunction with excerpts of Eliza Foster’s wartime diary, to supply an intimate portrait of the Union woman’s revel in throughout the Civil War. Illustrated with more than 50 original documents and photographs, the quantity traces Eliza’s life from her experiences as a single woman employed as a “mill girl” in antebellum New England, to young married woman and mother, to war widow and, in the long run, a victim of consumption. “Write Quick” presents a valuable case history of a Northern woman through her own words and the lens of her contemporaries.