The Websters: Letters of an American Army Family in Peace and War, 1836-1853 - Couverture rigide

Baker, Van R

 
9780873386548: The Websters: Letters of an American Army Family in Peace and War, 1836-1853
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ISBN 10 : 087338654X ISBN 13 : 9780873386548
Editeur : Kent State University Press, 2000

Synopsis

When Lucien Webster, West Point graduate and artilleryman, met Frances Smith, granddaughter of a Connecticut Revolutionary War hero, in Florida, neither could anticipate how exciting and stressful their lives would be over the next 17 years.

Thrown together in St. Augustine in 1836 during the Second Seminole War, the couple was barely married before being separated by orders that sent Lucien first to south Florida, where he established a post on the site of present-day Miami, and then to North Carolina, where he participated in the army's sad duty of driving the Cherokee Indians on their "trail of tears."

When finally reunited, the newlyweds were posted to duty in Maine for seven years--part of the time at remote Fort Kent, where Frances was the only officer's wife--and then Pensacola Bay for a few months while Lucien's unit prepared for the imminent war with Mexico. For the next two years Frances and Lucien's letters were filled with the details of their lives and with news of their friends. Lucien wrote of the horrors of the Battles of Monterey and Buena Vista and about the boredom of occupation duty, while Frances wrote about her difficulties in maintaining a virtual frontier home in western Florida and her decision to return to her relatives in the North.

The Websters has the rare distinction of containing both sides of a correspondence between an "Old Army" officer and his socially prominent wife, one that reflects both their private lives and many of the public events of the times and that interweaves their responses to each other's experiences.

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À propos de l'auteur

Van R. Baker is a retired career army officer (West Point, 1946) and is Professor Emeritus of English at York College of Pennsylvania.

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Éditeur
Kent State University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
087338654X
ISBN 13 
9780873386548
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
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