A Quiet Corner of the War Download

Author: Gilbert Claflin
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0299294803

A Quiet Corner of the War: The Civil War Letters of Gilbert and Esther Claflin, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1862-1863

In 2002, Judy Cook discovered a packet of letters written by her great-great-grandparents, Gilbert and Esther Claflin, during the American Civil War. Get A Quiet Corner of the War literature books for free.
An unexpected bounty, these letters from 1862-63 offer visceral witness to the war, recounting the trials of a family separated. Gilbert, an articulate and cheerful forty-year-old farmer, was drafted into the Union Army and served in the Thirty-Fourth Wisconsin Infantry garrisoned in western Kentucky along the Mississippi. Esther had married Gilbert when she was fifteen; now a woman with two teenage sons, she ran the family farm near Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in Gilbert's absence.AAAAAAAAAAA In his letters, Gilbert writes about food, hygiene, rampant desertions by drafted men, rebe Check A Quiet Corner of the War our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.