001477953 000__ 05371nam\a22008055i\4500 001477953 001__ 1477953 001477953 003__ DE-B1597 001477953 005__ 20231026034838.0 001477953 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477953 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477953 008__ 230103t20222008nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477953 020__ $$a9780823293322 001477953 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823293322$$2doi 001477953 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)566061 001477953 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306538350 001477953 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477953 0410_ $$aeng 001477953 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477953 072_7 $$aHIS036040$$2bisacsh 001477953 24500 $$aTheir Patriotic Duty :$$bThe Civil War Letters of the Evans Family of Brown County, Ohio /$$ced. by Robert F. Engs, Corey M. Brooks. 001477953 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477953 264_4 $$c©2008 001477953 300__ $$a1 online resource (384 p.) :$$b8 Illustrations, black and white 001477953 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477953 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477953 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477953 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477953 4900_ $$aThe North's Civil War 001477953 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tEditors' Note -- $$tEvans Family Tree -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tMaps -- $$t''I Have Seen the Elephant'' February 1862-April 1862 -- $$t''We Can Endure'' May 1862-April 1863 -- $$t''The Duty Imposed Upon Us'' May 1863-November 1863 -- $$t''Forced into a Responsible Position'' December 1863-November 1864 -- $$t''I Am Ready for Them to Give Up'' January 1865-April 1865 -- $$t''To Lay Aside All Prejudice''? May 1865-January 1866 -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tTimeline -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001477953 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477953 520__ $$aMany of the farm families in the river country of southern Ohio sent fathers, husbands, and sons to fight and die in the Civil War. Few families have bequeathed a record of that experience as remarkable as that created by the Evans family: an extraordinary collection of letters that offers a unique portrait of life both on the home front and on the front lines. From his homestead near Ripley on the Ohio River, patriarch Andrew Evans sent two sons to war, and from 1862 to 1866 father and sons wrote each other hundreds of letters. Called "the soldier's letters" by the family, this cache lay untouched in a barn until the 1980s, when Robert Engs was invited to edit them. Here are 273 family letters, most between Andrew and son Samuel, that draw us into the complicated lives of a Midwestern family not just suffering the dislocations of war, but also experiencing-and describing in intimate detail-the sorrows and occasional joys of rural life in nineteenth-century America. From the front lines with the 70th Ohio and, later, as an officer commanding a unit of "colored troops," Samuel writes of the horrors of Shiloh, of the loneliness and fear of patrolling Union lines in Tennessee. Andrew writes of the seasons of rural life, of illness and deaths in the family, of the complicated politics of this borderland where abolitionists and "Copperhead" pro-slavery voices shared daily debates. 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