Dear Sister
Subtitle: The Civil War Letters of the Brothers Gould
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: September 30, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780275962609
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: general; Warfare & Defence; c 1800 to c 1900; Military History - U.S. Civil War; Military Personal Narratives; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - Civil War; Gould family; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Civil War, 1861-1865; Correspondence; Delaware County; New York (State); Personal narratives; Soldiers; United States
Description: This collection of 139 letters from six of the seven Gould brothers who left their homes in central New York to fight for the Union Army forms a moving depiction, not only of life on the front lines of the Civil War, but of life on the home front as well. These letters, written to their beloved sister Hannah, span the entire four years of the conflict and run the gamut from initial enlistment to eventual death or discharge.

Through the eyes of the Goulds, an immigrant English family struggling to make a new life, one is able to experience this major American historical event with a new understanding.