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Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana: A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition

Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana: A Union Officer's Humor, Privilege, and Ambition

Pierson, Michael D.

Hardcover

Armed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)Regional: South

ISBN10: 0807164399
ISBN13: 9780807164396
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Nov 2 2016
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.55 Depth: 8.85
Language: English

In July 1862, Union Lieutenant Stephen Spalding wrote a long letter from his post in Algiers, Louisiana, to his former college roommate. Equally fascinating and unsettling for modern readers, the comic cynicism of the young soldier's correspondence offers an unusually candid and intimate account of military life and social change on the southern front. A captivating primary source, Spalding's letter is reproduced here for the first time, along with contextual analysis and biographical detail, by Michael D. Pierson. Lt. Spalding in Civil War Louisiana lifts the curtain on the twenty-two-year-old's elitist social attitudes and his consuming ambition, examining the mind of a man of privilege as he turns to humor to cope with unwelcome realities.


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