Oh, what a loansome time I had
Subtitle: the Civil War letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley
By: edited by Thomas W. Cutrer.
Contributors: Moxley, Emily Beck.; Cutrer, Thomas W.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Moxley, William Morel, d. 1878 -- Correspondence.; Moxley, Emily Beck -- Correspondence.; Moxley family -- Correspondence.; Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 18th; Soldiers -- Alabama -- Correspondence.; Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.; Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; Coffee County (Ala.) -- Biography.
Genres: Correspondence.; Personal narratives.; Personal narratives, Confederate.; Biography.
Description: "Most surviving correspondence of the Civil War period was written by members of a literate, elite class; few collections exist in which a woman's letters to her soldier husband have been preserved. Here, in the exchange between William and Emily Moxley, a working-class farm couple from Coffee County, Alabama, we see vividly an often-neglected aspect of the Civil War experience: the hardships of civilian life on the home front.".

"To supplement this revealing correspondence, the editor has provided ample documentation and research; a genealogical chart of the Moxley family; detailed maps of Alabama and Florida that allow the reader to trace the progress of Major Moxley's division; and thorough footnotes to document and elucidate events and people mentioned in the letters.

Readers interested in the Civil War and Alabama history will find these letters immensely appealing, while scholars of 19th-century domestic life will find much of value in Emily Moxley's rare descriptions of her homefront experiences."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-171) and index.