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- "Far, Far from Home" : The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers
- Publication Name
- 'Far, Far from Home'
- Title
- 'Far, Far from Home'
- Subtitle
- The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Caroli
- Contributor
- Edward H. Simpson (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0195086643
- EAN
- 9780195086645
- ISBN
- 9780195086645
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Genre
- History, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Letters, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
- Release Year
- 1994
- Release Date
- 21/07/1994
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 5.6in
- Item Width
- 8.5in
- Item Weight
- 15.9 Oz
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home--published here for the first time--read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy. In their last year of college when the war broke out, Dick and Tally were hastily handed their diplomas so they could volunteer for military duty. Dick was twenty; Tally was twenty-two. Well educated, intelligent, and thoughtful young men, Dick and Tally cared deeply for their country, their family, and their comrades-in-arms and wrote frequently to their loved ones in Pendleton, South Carolina, offering firsthand accounts of dramatic events from the battle of First Manassas in July 1861 to the battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. Their letters provide a picture of war as it was actually experienced at the time, not as it was remembered some twenty or thirty years later. It is a picture that neither glorifies war nor condemns it, but simply "tells it like it is." Written to a number of different people, the boys' letters home dealt with a number of different subjects. Letters to "Pa" went into great detail about military matters in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia--troop movements, casualties, and how well particular units had fought; letters to "Ma" and sisters Anna and Mary were about camp life and family friends in the army and usually included requests for much-needed food and clothing; letters to Aunt Caroline and her daughter Carrie usually concerned affairs of the heart, for Aunt Caroline continued to be Dick and Tally's trusted confidante, even when they were "far, far from home." The value of these letters lies not so much in the detailed information they provide as in the overall picture they convey--a picture of how one Southern family, for better or for worse, at home and at the front--coped with the experience of war. These are not wartime reminiscences, but wartime letters, written from the camp, the battlefield, the hospital bed, the picket line--wherever the boys happened to be when they found time to write home. It is a poignant picture of war as it was actually experienced in the South as the Civil War unfolded.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195086643
ISBN-13
9780195086645
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52429
Product Key Features
Book Title
"Far, Far from Home" : The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Letters, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
Publication Year
1994
Genre
History, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
5.6in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
8.5in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E577.5 3rd.S56 1994
Reviews
"This volume enriches the historiography of the Civil War. The editors should be commended for their fine collaborative efforts."--Civil War Regiments The quality, the depth of feeling, the frankness and the variety of subjects that mark these letters make for a connection between the reader and correspondents unusual in such collections....The editors have wisely let the Simpsons speak for themselves. So thorough were the letter writers in their descriptions that the editors could keep the notes and introduction to a minimum. This is a book not to be missed"--Georgia Historical Quarterly "Very interesting."--James A. Hakken,Jackson Community College "The war unfolds for the reader as it did for the soldier, full of great and horrible possibilities....Readers will find the real war in these letters written from the camp, battlefield, hospital, and picket line."--Civil War News, "This volume enriches the historiography of the Civil War. The editors should be commended for their fine collaborative efforts."--Civil War Regiments "The quality, the depth of feeling, the frankness and the variety of subjects that mark these letters make for a connection between the reader and correspondents unusual in such collections...The editors have wisely let the Simpsons speak for themselves. So thorough were the letter writers in their descriptions that the editors could keep the notes and introduction to a minimum. This is a book not to be missed"--Georgia Historical Quarterly "Very interesting."--James A. Hakken, Jackson Community College "The war unfolds for the reader as it did for the soldier, full of great and horrible possibilities...Readers will find the real war in these letters written from the camp, battlefield, hospital, and picket line."--Civil War News "Like all good autobiographies, these witty and poignant letters reveal more about the authors than they had intended. As two young college boys turn into seasoned campaigners, we see an entire generation transforming itself into something it never expected."--Raymond L. Puffer, KLIATT, "This volume enriches the historiography of the Civil War. The editors should be commended for their fine collaborative efforts."-- Civil War RegimentsThe quality, the depth of feeling, the frankness and the variety of subjects that mark these letters make for a connection between the reader and correspondents unusual in such collections....The editors have wisely let the Simpsons speak for themselves. So thorough were the letter writers in their descriptions that the editors could keep the notes and introduction to a minimum. This is a book not to be missed"-- Georgia Historical Quarterly"Very interesting."--James A. Hakken, Jackson Community College"The war unfolds for the reader as it did for the soldier, full of great and horrible possibilities....Readers will find the real war in these letters written from the camp, battlefield, hospital, and picket line."-- Civil War News, "This volume enriches the historiography of the Civil War. The editors should be commended for their fine collaborative efforts."--Civil War Regiments"The quality, the depth of feeling, the frankness and the variety of subjects that mark these letters make for a connection between the reader and correspondents unusual in such collections...The editors have wisely let the Simpsons speak for themselves. So thorough were the letter writers in their descriptions that the editors could keep the notes and introduction to a minimum. This is a book not to be missed"--Georgia Historical Quarterly"Very interesting."--James A. Hakken, Jackson Community College"The war unfolds for the reader as it did for the soldier, full of great and horrible possibilities...Readers will find the real war in these letters written from the camp, battlefield, hospital, and picket line."--Civil War News"Like all good autobiographies, these witty and poignant letters reveal more about the authors than they had intended. As two young college boys turn into seasoned campaigners, we see an entire generation transforming itself into something it never expected."--Raymond L. Puffer, KLIATT, "The war unfolds for the reader as it did for the soldier, full of great and horrible possibilities....Readers will find the real war in these letters written from the camp, battlefield, hospital, and picket line."--Civil War News, "Like all good autobiographies, these witty and poignant letters revealmore about the authors than they had intended. As two young college boys turninto seasoned campaigners, we see an entire generation transforming itself intosomething it never expected."--Raymond L. Puffer, KLIATT, "This volume enriches the historiography of the Civil War. The editorsshould be commended for thier fine collaborative efforts."--Civil WarRegiments, "This volume enriches the historiography of the Civil War. The editors should be commended for their fine collaborative efforts."--Civil War Regiments The quality, the depth of feeling, the frankness and the variety of subjects that mark these letters make for a connection between the reader and correspondents unusual in such collections....The editors have wisely let the Simpsons speak for themselves. So thorough were the letter writers in their descriptions that the editors could keep the notes and introduction to a minimum. This is a book not to be missed"--Georgia Historical Quarterly "Very interesting."--James A. Hakken, Jackson Community College "The war unfolds for the reader as it did for the soldier, full of great and horrible possibilities....Readers will find the real war in these letters written from the camp, battlefield, hospital, and picket line."--Civil War News, The quality, the depth of feeling, the frankness and the variety of subjects that mark these letters make for a connection between the reader and correspondents unusual in such collections....The editors have wisely let the Simpsons speak for themselves. So thorough were the letter writers intheir descriptions that the editors could keep the notes and introduction to a minimum. This is a book not to be missed"--Georgia Historical Quarterly, The quality, the depth of feeling, the frankness and the variety ofsubjects that mark these letters make for a connection between the reader andcorrespondents unusual in such collections....The editors have wisely let theSimpsons speak for themselves. So thorough were the letter writers in theirdescriptions that the editors could keep the notes and introduction to aminimum. This is a book not to be missed"--Georgia Historical Quarterly, "This volume enriches the historiography of the Civil War. The editors should be commended for their fine collaborative efforts."--Civil War Regiments, "The war unfolds for the reader as it did for the soldier, full of greatand horrible possibilities....Readers will find the real war in these letterswritten from the camp, battlefield, hospital, and picket line."--Civil WarNews, "Like all good autobiographies, these witty and poignant letters reveal more about the authors than they had intended. As two young college boys turn into seasoned campaigners, we see an entire generation transforming itself into something it never expected."--Raymond L. Puffer, KLIATT
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