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"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
- Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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| | Oh, What a Loansome Time I Had:
The Civil War Letters of Major William Morel Moxley, Eighteenth Alabama Infantry, and Emily Beck Moxley
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| | by William Morel Moxley, Thomas W. Cutrer (Editor)
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ZIN Product Number: 10317445
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 Format: Hardcover, 182 pages
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311181
Release Date: Jan 1, 2002
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This rare and valuable correspondence between an Alabama soldier and his wife relates in poignant detail the struggle for survival on the battlefield as well as on the home front and gives voice to the underrepresented class of small farmers. Emily's moving letters to her husband, startling in their immediacy and detail, chronicle such difficulties as a desperate lack of food and clothing for her family, the frustration of depending on others in the community, and her growing terror at facing childbirth without her husband, at the mercy of a doctor with questionable skills. Major Moxley's letters to his wife reveal a decidedly unromantic side of the war, describing his frequent encounters with starvation, disease, and bloody slaughter.
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.
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| | | |  | | | | List of Figures | ix | | Acknowledgments | xi | | Introduction | 1 | | 1. | "For you and them I am willing to die," 10 June 1861-22 October 1861 | 14 | | 2. | "Good news as well as bad," 23 October 1861-22 November 1861 | 38 | | 3. | "How dreadful is war," 23 November 1861-28 December 1861 | 63 | | 4. | "You have no idea how much trouble this settlement is in," 1 January 1862-7 February 1862 | 92 | | 5. | "Oh, what a sudden death," 10 February 1862-25 February 1862 | 116 | | 6. | "As well as common," 28 February 1862-2 April 1862 | 131 | | 7. | "It really seems that we have worse luck than any other set of men in the known world," 3 May 1862-17 December 1864 | 139 | | 8. | "A prettie wild country," 6 September 1870-20 April 1891 | 158 | | Bibliography | 167 | | Index | 173 |
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