Yours affectionately, Osgood : Colonel Osgood Vose Tracy's letters home from the Civil War, 1862-1865 /

Yours affectionately, Osgood : Colonel Osgood Vose Tracy's letters home from the Civil War, 1862-1865 /

"An abolitionist Civil War soldier and prisoner of war reflects on life during wartime. More than 3 million men served in the American Civil War. In Yours Affectionately, Osgood, editors Sarah Tracy Burrows and Ryan W. Keating have assembled a collection of letters from one of those soldiers--O...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tracy, Osgood Vose (Author)
Other Authors: Burrows, Sarah Tracy (Editor), Keating, Ryan W. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2022]
Series:Interpreting the Civil War
Subjects:
Tracy, Osgood Vose > Correspondence.
United States. > Army > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Sources.
United States. > Army.
1861-1865
Soldiers > United States > Correspondence.
Soldiers.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Correspondence.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Sources.
United States.
History.
Personal correspondence.
Sources.
Table of Contents:
  • To war, "baptism of fire": September-October 1862
  • The Grand Advance: November-December 1862
  • Long winter, short furlough: December 21, 1862-March 6, 1863
  • "Waiting for the fight": March 21-June 1863
  • "The rebels are certainly playing a bold game": Gettysburg, July-October 1863
  • "Fall campaigns": November-December 1863
  • "Winter guard duty": Sandusky, Ohio, January-April 1864
  • "Capture and escape": Battle of the Wilderness, April-June 1864
  • Back on the campaign train: July-December 1864
  • The war draws to a close: January-May 1865
  • Postwar: June 1865-1909.