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Yours Till Death

Civil War Letters of John W. Cotton

John Cotton author Lucille Griffith editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Alabama Press

Published:1st Jan '03

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These letters from a yeoman farmer in the Confederate Army to his wife in Coosa County, Alabama, will be of interest to historians not only for the light shed upon the life of the Confederate soldier, but also for frequent allusions to rural life and the operation of the farm in Cotton's absence. He enlisted at Pinckneyville, Alabama, on April 1, 1862, and was paroled at Talladega on May 25, 1865. During the intervening years he saw action in Tennessee and Kentucky, in the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, briefly again in Tennessee, then in Georgia against the forces of Sherman, moving finally into South Carolina.... These letters constitute an authentic record of a typical Confederate soldier's experience, ---Journal of Southern History

ISBN: 9780817350437

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 333g

144 pages