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9780813122595

While Father Is Away

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813122595

  • ISBN10:

    0813122597

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-02-28
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
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" While Father is Away reveals the intimate story of a British-American's role in the American Civil War. William Bradbury's letters home provide a rare window on the unique relationships among husband, wife, and children while a father was away at war. Yorkshire attorney turned Union volunteer soldier Bradbury became a "privileged private" with extraordinary access to powerful Union generals including Daniel Butterfield, future president Benjamin Harrison, and Clinton B. Fisk, the region's administrator for the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction. The letters also provide an in-depth look at this driven land speculator and manager for the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway. As a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the Manchester Guardian, Bradbury was both eyewitness to and participant in the shaping of events in the world as it moved west.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(15)
``My Dear Wife and Children''
September 8, 1862--November 14, 1862
16(17)
``If We Go to England...''
November 20, 1862--January 23, 1863
33(29)
``Stand on Your Dignity!''
February 5, 1863--March 26, 1863
62(16)
``Chief of the Topographical Engineers''
March 31, 1863--May 31, 1863
78(13)
``More Compliments than Coppers''
June 4, 1863--August 9, 1863
91(17)
``Bully for Us!''
August 14, 1863--October 13, 1863
108(14)
``After the Loaves and the Fishes''
February 5, 1864--April 1, 1864
122(23)
``I Don't Like This Field Work''
April 1, 1864--July 27, 1864
145(25)
``Let It Go to Thunder!''
August 12, 1864--September 20, 1864
170(14)
``All I Live For''
September 22, 1864--November 24, 1864
184(24)
``Everybody has the Blues Sometimes''
December 28, 1864--February 8, 1865
208(21)
``The Federals in the Southwest''
February 10, 1865--May 1, 1865
229(41)
``Headquarters of the Cumberland''
May 13, 1865--July 1, 1865
270(16)
``General Fisk and the Freedmen's Bureau''
July 5, 1865--August 30, 1865
286(20)
``To Clasp You Once More in My Arms''
September 2, 1865--December 15, 1865
306(9)
Afterword ``The Bradburys' Postwar Reconstruction'' 1866--1900 315(12)
Appendix 327(4)
Notes 331(34)
Bibliography 365(8)
Index 373
Illustrations follow page 164

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