Love amid the Turmoil
Subtitle: The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermilion
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Published: November 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781587296093
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; History; Biography / Autobiography; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Letters; Military; United States - Civil War; History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI); United States - State & Local - Midwest
Description: "William Vermilion (1830-1894) served as a captain in Company F of the 36th Iowa Infantry from October 1862 until September 1865. Although he was a physician in Iconium in south central Iowa at the start of the war, after it ended he became a noted lawyer in nearby Centerville; he was also a state senator from 1869 to 1872. Mary Vermilion (1831-1883) was a schoolteacher who grew up in Indiana; she and William married in 1858. In this volume historian Donald Elder provides a careful selection from the hundreds of supportive, informative, and heart-wrenching letters that they wrote each other during the war - the most complete collection of letters exchanged between a husband and a wife during the Civil War."--Cover.