Love Amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermilion

by Elder, Donald C., III
ISBN: 9780877458494
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Overview

William Vermilion (1830-1894) served as a captain in Company F of the 36th Iowa Infantry from October 1862 until September 1865. Although he was a physician in Iconium in south central Iowa at the start of the war, after it ended he became a noted lawyer in nearby Centerville; he was also a state senator from 1869 to 1872. Mary Vermilion (1831-1883) was a schoolteacher who grew up in Indiana; she and William married in 1858. In this volume historian Donald Elder provides a careful selection from the hundreds of supportive, informative, and heart-wrenching letters that they wrote each other during the warOCothe most complete collection of letters exchanged between a husband and a wife during the Civil War."

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Elder, Donald C., III
  • ISBN: 9780877458494
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.52 x 1.19
  • Number Of Pages: 391
  • Publication Year: 2003