The Leverett Letters: Correspondence of a South Carolina Family, 1851-1868

by J. Tracy Power

Book Overview

Personal correspondence that allows an unprecedented look into southern culture of the Civil War era

"It will be an extreme disadvantage to you all your life, not to be able to make easy use of your pen," Mary Maxcy Leverett lectured one of her sons on the art of letter writing in May 1863. Adopting her keen interest in lively, well-written correspondence, Mary's nine children wrote home frequently as they ventured from their South...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570033331
• ISBN13: 9781570033339
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"