Letters from Lee's army, or, Memoirs of life in and out of the army in Virginia during the War Between the States
By: compiled by Susan Leigh Blackford from original and contemporaneous memoirs, correspondence, and diaries ; annotated by Charles Minor Blackford ; edited and abridged for publication by Charles Minor Blackford III ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Gordon C. Rhea.
Contributors: Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903.; Blackford, Charles Minor, 1898 or 9-; Blackford, Susan Leigh, b. 1835.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Blackford, Susan Leigh, b. 1835 -- Correspondence; Blackford, Charles Minor, 1833-1903 -- Correspondence; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Lynchburg (Va.) -- Biography
Other titles: Letters from Lee's army; Memoirs of life in and out of the army in Virginia during the War Between the States
Description: Charles Minor Blackford was a Virginia aristocrat who fought for the Confederacy as much out of obligation to his class and region as for political reasons. Letters from Lee's Army presents the correspondence between Captain Blackford and his wife, Susan Leigh Blackford, during the war. While Captain Blackford writes of the rigors of campaigning, the dramatically bad food, the constant dysentery, the cold and wet, we see the stoic Susan Blackford gradually relying less and less on her husband to make decisions. During the course of the war Susan Blackford lost her home, three children, and her belongings to the struggle, all without the camaraderie and sustaining sense of purpose known to the soldier. These letters emphasize the stresses that war and separation can place on a marriage. Publisher.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1947.
An abridged version of Memoirs of life in and out of the army in Virginia during the War Between the States (1894) compiled by Susan Leigh Blackford.
Includes index.