To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861–1876

Published by Duke University Press 2002

To Live and Die

Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861–1876

Edited by: Kathleen Diffley

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385967

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About this book

An anthology of Civil War stories from nineteenth-century magazines.

Author / Editor information

Kathleen Diffley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and the author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861–1876.

Reviews

“Kathleen Diffley has unearthed, assembled, and contextualized a fascinating collection of stories, most completely unknown until now. This volume will bring renewed attention to Civil War fiction as a viable and interesting genre.”—Elizabeth Young, author of Disarming the Nation: Women’s Writing and the American Civil War

“This anthology of short stories offers fascinating glimpses of the Civil War as most Americans at the time experienced it—by reading about incidents on the battlefront and elsewhere in popular magazines. Modern readers can project themselves back to that heroic and sentimental time more effectively through this medium of popular literature than in any other way.”—James M. McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

“This splendid collection reveals a great deal about the ‘real war’ that Walt Whitman predicted would never get into the books. Written between 1861 and 1876, the stories illuminate myriad facets of our defining national crisis. The range of scenes and voices from the battlefield and the homefront, from men and women, from North and South, remind us of the almost infinite variety of ways in which the war touched Americans.”—Gary W. Gallagher, author of Lee and His Army in Confederate History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Daily Emergency: CivilWar Stories of theWar Generation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Time Line Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Prelude
‘‘The Cabin at Pharaoh’s Ford,’’ Overland Monthly (December 1874) Henry King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
1861
‘‘Job and the Bug,’’ Lippincott’s (May 1871) Chauncey Hickox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
‘‘A True and Simple Tale of ’61,’’ Southern Monthly (December 1861) Izilda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
‘‘Ellen,’’ Atlantic Monthly (July 1865) Rebecca Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
1862
‘‘Hopeful Tackett—His Mark,’’ Continental Monthly (September 1862) Richmond Wolcott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
‘‘Thomas Elliott’s Speculations,’’ Harper’s Monthly (February 1863) Fred Perkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
‘‘Mrs. F.’sWaiting Maid,’’ Harper’s Monthly (June 1867) Nora Perry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
‘‘Believe in Ghosts!’’ New National Era (November 1870) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
‘‘The Sergeant’s Little Story,’’ Southern Magazine (October 1873) William Kemper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
‘‘On the Antietam,’’ Harper’sWeekly (3 January 1863) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
‘‘A Letter from the Country,’’ Harper’sWeekly (8 November 1862) Charity Grimes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
‘‘T. J.’s Cavalry Charge,’’ New Eclectic Monthly (April 1870) Confederate Gray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
1863
‘‘Colonel Charley’s Wife,’’ Harper’sWeekly (8 October 1864) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
‘‘The Fourteenth at Gettysburg,’’ Harper’sWeekly (21 November 1863) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
‘‘Lee at Gettysburg,’’ Galaxy (April 1871) J Imboden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
‘‘Three Days of Terror,’’ Harper’s Monthly (January 1867) Ellen Larned Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
‘‘The Brothers,’’ Atlantic Monthly (November 1863) Louisa Alcott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
‘‘The Case of George Dedlow,’’ Atlantic Monthly (July 1866) Silas Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
‘‘Robbed of Half a Million,’’ Harper’s Monthly (October 1866) J Culver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
‘‘In the ‘Libey’,’’ Harper’sWeekly (20 February 1864) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
‘‘Mr.Williamson Slippey and His Salt,’’ New Eclectic Monthly (October 1870) Richard Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
1864
‘‘A Night on the Mississippi,’’ Putnam’s (April 1870) Ross Guffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
‘‘Mrs. Spriggins, the Neutral,’’ Southern Magazine (February 1871) G Coulson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
‘‘Buried Alive,’’ Harper’sWeekly (7 May 1864) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
‘‘A Night in the Wilderness,’’ Galaxy (May 1871) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
‘‘The Freedman’s Story,’’ Harper’s Monthly (October 1866) M Vere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
‘‘Road-Side Story,’’ LandWe Love (August 1866) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
1865
‘‘The Skeleton in the Closet,’’ Galaxy (June 1866) Edward Hale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
‘‘Sentenced and Shot,’’ Lakeside Monthly (November 1870) Richard Sheppard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
‘‘Wilhelmina,’’ Atlantic Monthly (January 1875) Constance Woolson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	352
Aftermath
‘‘A True Story, RepeatedWord for Word As I Heard It,’’ Atlantic Monthly (November 1874) Samuel Clemens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
Author Sketches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Illustration Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
CivilWar Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
Bibliographic Essay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 443
Illustrations
- Other: 41 b&w photos

eBook

Published: April 24, 2002
ISBN: 9780822385967