Far, Far from Home: The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers Hardcover - 1994
by Dick Simpson; R. W. Simpson; Guy R. Everson (Editor)
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The first chapter covers the period from the fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861 to the lull in the fighting following the Confederate victory at First Manassas.
From the rear cover
In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home - published here for the first time - read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy. Well-educated, intelligent, and thoughtful young men, Dick and Tally Simpson cared deeply for their country, their family, and their comrades-in-arms and wrote frequently to their loved ones in Pendleton, South Carolina, offering firsthand accounts of dramatic events from the battle of First Manassas (Bull Run) in July 1861 to the battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. Yet the value of these letters lies not so much in the detailed information they provide as in the overall picture they convey - a picture of how one Southern family, for better or for worse, at home and at the front, coped with the experience of war. These are not wartime reminiscences, but wartime letters, written from the camp, the battlefield, the hospital bed, the picket line - wherever the boys happened to be when they found time to write home. Together these letters offer a poignant picture of war as it was actually experienced in the South as the Civil War unfolded.
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- Title Far, Far from Home: The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers
- Author Dick Simpson; R. W. Simpson; Guy R. Everson (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 1994-06-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780195086638 / 0195086635
- Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 8.88 x 5.8 x 1.06 in (22.56 x 14.73 x 2.69 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: South Carolina
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects Confederate States of America, United States - History - Civil War,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93022872
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.745
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