While Father Is Away: The Civil War Letters of William H. Bradbury - Hardcover

Bohrnstedt, Jennifer C.; Bradbury, William H.

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ISBN 10: 0813122597 ISBN 13: 9780813122595

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003

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Thankfully, the Bradbury correspondence did not suffer the fate of most letters. - ANDREW R. L. CAYTON

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" While Father is Away reveals the intimate story of a British-American's role in the American Civil War. William Bradbury's letters home provide a rare window on the unique relationships among husband, wife, and children while a father was away at war. Yorkshire attorney turned Union volunteer soldier Bradbury became a "privileged private" with extraordinary access to powerful Union generals including Daniel Butterfield, future president Benjamin Harrison, and Clinton B. Fisk, the region's administrator for the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction. The letters also provide an in-depth look at this driven land speculator and manager for the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway. As a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the Manchester Guardian , Bradbury was both eyewitness to and participant in the shaping of events in the world as it moved west.

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• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0813122597
• ISBN 13: 9780813122595
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408
• Herausgeber: Bohrnstedt Jennifer Cain