This week is pub week for Practical Strangers: The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln edited by Stephen Berry and Angela Esco Elder. With the blog series we tried to recreate the delayed nature of correspondence during the Civil War, with a modern twist. To conclude the series, we…
Nathaniel reflects on the two months since he departed from Elodie and writes of his hopes for their speedy reunion. The trials of war become more evident through Nathaniel’s mention of soldiers’ differing opinions of their commanders and the possibility of marching on Washington to meet General Beauregard.
Elodie expresses her disappointment in not receiving a letter from Nathaniel and the fears his silence has provoked. She writes of the hard farewells that she has undergone, but fiercely declares her willingness to sacrifice everything for the Confederate cause and to resist her brother-in-law’s government.
I love you dearly, ardently, entirely, devotedly. Do you object? Do you call me lovesick? And I would throw millions in the scales if I could command them to feel that I deserved your love.” This summer we’re launching New Perspectives on the Civil War Era, a new series dedicated to the publication of primary…
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Ever since I can remember, I have been looked upon and called the ‘old maid’ of the family, and Mother seemed to think I was to be depended on to take care of her when all the rest of her handsomer daughters left her, and I really believe they all think I am committing a…
Nathaniel has finally received a letter from Elodie in response to his numerous letters. Here he expresses his joy that she has reciprocated, but he also references her powerful brother-in-law, Abraham Lincoln, by asking her to pressure him for peace because “it would add greatly to our happiness.”
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After several letters from Nathaniel have been written and dispatched, Elodie responds with news from Selma about her family, war preparations taking place in town, and her fears for the future of Kentucky.
This summer we’re launching New Perspectives on the Civil War Era, a new series dedicated to the publication of primary sources (letters, diaries, speeches, etc.) of the Civil War era from a wide diversity of perspectives—respecting the soldier’s voice, but not privileging it over every other as is the case in most such edited volumes. The first volume in the series is Practical Strangers: The Courtship Correspondence of Nathaniel Dawson and Elodie Todd, Sister of Mary Todd Lincoln edited by Stephen Berry and Angela Esco Elder.
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