CIVIL WAR Sailor & friend write "DEAREST CARRIE CIVIL WAR LETTERS HOME"

Description: I COMBINE SHIPPING $1.50 per book. FREE SHIPPING for orders over $60. Send books to your check-out cart. E-Bay will automatically adjust shipping costs.PACKAGING & SHIPPING RULES:1. Individual books Under $18.00 are shipped in padded poly envelopes. 2. Individual books Over $18.00 are shipped in a poly envelope inside a box. 3. Buy Three or more books and the order is shipped in a box.ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS LISTING: This is about a Virginia man who joins the Union cause by signing on as an engineer of a US Steamer. For s short while in 1863 he is on the US Cirassian Soon after he is on the US Steamer Sacramento. The steamers sailed the Atlantic during the war. The letters talk about family and are between several family members over the years. The back of the book has letters from an officer friend who is in Libby Prison in 1863 . He is paroled in late 1864. The man is the wife of the engineers sister Carrie. The family wrote to each other. From a book review: Dearest Carrie is a compilation of letters written during the Civil War by a family whose lives were disrupted and changed forever. Most of the letters are from a lonely unhappy engineer on a steamer in the Atlantic, who traveled from port to port, and wrote often to his wife Carrie. The others are to her sister and other family members, and several are to the sailor from home. The Libby Prison letters were written by Andrew Jackson Hopkins and his wife while he was a prisoner. After Carrie Tipton's death, they adopted Willie. They were given to the author by the only descendent of this family when he was in his nineties, with the suggestion that they be published. Little Willie in these letters was William Tipton Hopkins, a pioneer of Newport News, Virginia, and its longtime postmaster. Dearest Carrie is a unique and very special look at the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary times

Price: 12 USD

Location: Livonia, Michigan

End Time: 2024-10-14T11:40:33.000Z

Shipping Cost: 5.4 USD