After Chancellorsville - Judith A. Bailey and Robert I. Cotton - Audio Book
After Chancellorsville - Judith A. Bailey and Robert I. Cotton : "I reckon I sympathize with you deeply Dear Walt and I wish I could be with you, if it would help you any. I would. . .be the best nurse you ever had, I'll bet you. I would laugh and sing and read to you and if we both felt like it I could cry too, and not half try."
So wrote Emma Randolph, a young woman not yet twenty, to her distant cousin, Private Walter G. Dunn of the Eleventh New Jersey Infantry, as he lay in a crowded, filthy hospital ward. They corresponded when Walter went off to war, but their real story only began when he was carried from the smoke and carnage of Chancellorsville to a hospital in Baltimore.
There, barely recovered, bloodied and dazed with ether, he aided overworked surgeons when the Gettysburg wounded poured into the city and regularly took up his pen to relay everyday events that became history.
She replied in kindly. At home, men were torn by guilt, women lost in grief, and a presidential
election loomed. But there were also church picnics, strawberry festivals, ice cream socials, and trips to the ocean. In time they realized their love for one another and planned a life together after the war ended.
When I first listen to this audio book it was as if this story did not happened during the War of Secession or «Civil War», but during the French-German war which took place between July 1870 and May 1871, the first World War in 1914-18 (as my grand-father explained it to me),
the Second World War in 1939-1945 (as my father explained it to me) and all the one who came
after. Nothing changed and something remained: civil courage and love which manages to survive in the middle of all these horrors
So wrote Emma Randolph, a young woman not yet twenty, to her distant cousin, Private Walter G. Dunn of the Eleventh New Jersey Infantry, as he lay in a crowded, filthy hospital ward. They corresponded when Walter went off to war, but their real story only began when he was carried from the smoke and carnage of Chancellorsville to a hospital in Baltimore.
There, barely recovered, bloodied and dazed with ether, he aided overworked surgeons when the Gettysburg wounded poured into the city and regularly took up his pen to relay everyday events that became history.
She replied in kindly. At home, men were torn by guilt, women lost in grief, and a presidential
election loomed. But there were also church picnics, strawberry festivals, ice cream socials, and trips to the ocean. In time they realized their love for one another and planned a life together after the war ended.
When I first listen to this audio book it was as if this story did not happened during the War of Secession or «Civil War», but during the French-German war which took place between July 1870 and May 1871, the first World War in 1914-18 (as my grand-father explained it to me),
the Second World War in 1939-1945 (as my father explained it to me) and all the one who came
after. Nothing changed and something remained: civil courage and love which manages to survive in the middle of all these horrors
Labels: 19th century history, 20th century history, audiobook, civil war, war
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