Prison pens : gender, memory, and imprisonment in the writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863-1866
Timothy J. Williams (Editor), Evan Kutzler (Editor), G. Washington Nelson, Mollie Scollay
Presents the memoir of a captured Confederate soldier in northern Virginia and the letters he exchanged with his fiancée during the Civil War. Wash Nelson and Mollie Scollay's letters, as well as Nelson's own manuscript memoir, provide rare insight into a world of intimacy, despair, loss, and reunion in the Civil War South.
Personal Narrative
1 online resource
9780820351940, 0820351946
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