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My dearest Lilla : letters home from Civil War General Jacob D. Cox / edited by Gene Schmiel.

"Most of the letters in this collection are to Cox's wife, Helen. This volume's editor, Gene Schmiel, wrote a well-regarded biography of Cox in 2014. In 2012, Schmiel was made aware that Oberlin College had a cache of letters that had been transcribed by Cox's great granddaughter...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Cox, Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900
Other Authors: Schmiel, Gene (Editor)
Other title:Letters home from Civil War General Jacob D. Cox
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Voices of the Civil War series.
Subjects:
Cox, Jacob D. > (Jacob Dolson), > 1828-1900 > Correspondence.
Cox, Helen, > 1828-1911 > Correspondence.
Cox, Jacob D. > (Jacob Dolson), > 1828-1900
Generals > Ohio > Biography.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
Ohio > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
Generals
Military campaigns
Ohio
United States
1861-1865
Biographies
History
Personal correspondence
Personal narratives
Table of Contents:
  • The Making of a Soldier, 1861
  • Baptism of Fire: The Hills of (West) Virginia
  • On the National Stage: The Antietam Campaign
  • Paper General
  • East Tennessee and the Struggle for Control
  • The Atlanta Campaign
  • The Taking of Atlanta
  • Final Campaigns: Victory in the West/North Carolina
  • Afterword.

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