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9781933337524

Two Years Before the Paddlewheel

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  • ISBN13:

    9781933337524

  • ISBN10:

    1933337524

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-12-14
  • Publisher: State House Pr
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Summary

Charles F. Gunther is a Yankee ice peddlar who is trapped in the South at the outbreak of the war. Presented here are two years of diaries of Gunther's experiences working on the steamboat Rose Douglas, ferrying Confederate troops and supplies. After the war, Gunther makes a fortune in the candy business across the street from Marshal Field's in Chicago, becomes a premier collector and preserver of Civil War artifacts and Lincoln memorabilia, endows the Chicago history Museum with its Civil War collection, and goes on to hold political office as an alderman and City Treasurer of Chicago. In Two Years Before the Paddlewheel, readers can follow the day-by-day survival of an ordinary ice merchant turned Confederate steamboat purser during the Civil War. Gunther's day-by-day account as a civilian in military service illuminates the economic, military, social, and personal side of America's Civil War.

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Excerpts

(January 18, 1862). "The days are perceptibly getting longer & I manage to get up much earlier. We get along very well, & had considerable excitement by the reports of rats leaving the boat. Our Englishmen & others are in a great stew about it. Life preservers are in requisition. Read the greater part of the day & Eve. Some sport with passengers at the Englishmen’s expense & rats."
 
(January 19, 1862). "The rat story is the story of the boat & many a joke is got off upon it, not sunk yet. Sunday again. I am sorry to say the surroundings are such that all religious thoughts & feelings are missing & the day passes like all others,--quiet with the usual monotonous scenery of the river. Arrived at Vicksburg at 8. News: Cameron resigned & a fight in Ky."
 
The battle in Kentucky that Gunther refers to was the Battle of Mill Springs (also known as Fishing Creek), fought near Nancy, Kentucky on January 19, 1862. It concluded an early Confederate offensive campaign for Eastern Kentucky and stands as the first significant Union victory of the war. The main units involved for the Union were the 2nd Minnesota and 10th Indiana and for the Confederates the 15th Mississippi and 20th Tennessee. Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer was killed leading his troops here. These are the exciting bits of war news that would have been poured over aboard theRose Douglaslate into the night.

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