OH, WHAT A LOANSOME TIME I HAD : THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF MAJOR WILLIAM MOREL MOXLEY, EIGHTEENTH ALABAMA INFANTRY, AND EMILY BECK MOXLEY

Hardback; very good in very good dustjacket.; The correspondence between William and Emily Moxley, a working-class farm couple from Coffee County, Alabama. An insight into the the hardships of civilian life on the home front. Emily's moving letters to her husband, startling in their immediacy and detail, chronicle such difficulties as a desperate lack of food and clothing for her family, the frustration of depending on others in the community, and her growing terror at facing childbirth without her husband, at the mercy of a doctor with questionable skills. Major Moxley's letters to his wife reveal a decidedly unromantic side of the war, describing his frequent encounters with starvation, disease, and bloody slaughter. Illustrated; xiipp.; 182 pages Title: OH, WHAT A LOANSOME TIME I HAD : THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF MAJOR WILLIAM MOREL MOXLEY, EIGHTEENTH ALABAMA INFANTRY, AND EMILY BECK MOXLEY Author Name: Cutrer, Thomas W. (edited. ) ISBN Number: 0817311181 ISBN-13: 9780817311186 Location Published: The University of Alabama Press: 2002 Binding: Hardcover Book Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket kg: 1.00 kg Categories: Biography & Memoirs Seller ID: 79778 Keywords: american civil war confederate history home front women at war