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"In 1862 Private Grant Taylor of the 40th Alabama Infantry regiment began writing home to his wife Malinda. Thus started an almost three year correspondence of some one hundred and sixty letters of one rural Alabama family that chronicle the American Civil War.".
"Neither a slave-holder nor a secessionist, thirty-four year old Taylor reluctantly went to war with his neighbors when faced with the Confederate draft and its stigma. His writings contain few exclamations of support for the Confederacy or expressions of patriotism, and as the conflict went on, his morale only declined. Taylor's early letters deal with topics like the vain attempt to secure a substitute and accounts of local men maiming themselves to avoid military service.
These incidents offset romanticized legends about the eagerness of some Southerners to fight the Yankees. Throughout, Taylor tells a grim soldier's story of hard marching, short rations, inadequate clothing, illness, and the constant fears of being wounded or killed in battle.".
"Some thirty-two of Malinda Taylor's own letters to her husband are part of this invaluable correspondence. Her letters offer a rich source on what the war did to Southern yeoman society. She records the problems of running the family farm and caring for their young children often on her own. Malinda gained self-reliance that made her husband uneasy. Despite all their trials, the Taylors remained a loving couple not afraid to express their feelings for each other."--BOOK JACKET.
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This cruel war: the Civil War letters of Grant and Malinda Taylor, 1862-1865
2000, Mercer University Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0865546541 9780865546547
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-337) and index.
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