Letters from Home

By Doug Odell

I Take Pen in Hand...When our Civil War reenacting club began the Letters from Home Project, few of us could foresee the consequences. We started out writing letters to the personas we portrayed in the 1860s, always in keeping with the era. Soon people weren't satisfied just receiving letters, they responded back to all the newfound relatives, businessmen, lawmen, lovers, soldiers and scoundrels that showed up in their correspondence.Our Civil War experience grew in ways we had not anticipated. The letters were often funny, but the stories we created together demonstrated that people from the 19th century were capable of all the love, hope, greed, and sorrow that we moderns experience, perhaps more so, given the national tragedy unfolding front and center in their lives.Three years into the project I thought to rescue this treasure from the vicissitudes of time. Some letters, alas, were already lost. The majority were still available and are gathered here to be enjoyed by all who want to know what might have happened during the tumultuous times of the American Civil War. -Doug Odell

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1542982081
• ISBN13: 9781542982085
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.9" x 6.0"