The ninety letters in this collection document the Civil War career of Col. Edward Jesup Wood, an officer of the 48th Indiana. Evocative and rich in detail, A F

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His name was Jimsy and he took it for granted that you liked him. That made things difficult from the very start-that and the fact that he arrived in the villag

During the Civil War, Vicksburg, Mississippi, assumed almost mythic importance in the minds of Americans: northerners and southerners, soldier and civilian. The