Delivered Under Fire
Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail
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ISBN-13:
9781640124486
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2023
Seiten:
352
Autor:
Candice Shy Hooper
Gewicht:
680 g
Format:
228x144x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Delivered Under Fire is the biography of the U.S. Post Office special agent who risked his life to protect mail that contained some of the most personal and valuable information during the Civil War.
List of Illustrations Preface Prologue: April 14, 1865 1. A Boy of the Buffalo Trace: 1825–55 2. A Man in Search of a Mission: 1856–61 3. Absalom Markland, Special Agent: 1861–62 4. “An Honored & Favored Man”: February–September 1862 5. “The Flood of Letters”: September 1862–64 6. “Twenty Tons of Mail”: 1864 7. “Trains Have Stopped Running, Except for the Mail”: January–April 1865 8. “A Mark of Friendship and Esteem”: April 1865–November 1868 9. “Our Continued Services Together”: 1868–71 10. The “Colonel” Becomes a “General”: 1872–84 11. A Man in Search of Himself: 1885–88 Epilogue: 1889–Today Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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