Wanted--correspondence

the long version

The author presents her grandfather's collection of letters, written to him by various ladies during his time as a Union soldier in the Civil War. The book is divided into two sections. The first provides a detailed introduction to themes that arise in the letters (such as shifts in women's access to and engagement with education, events on the Ohio homefront, etc.) and the context in which they were produced. The second provides the letters in their entirety, organized chronologically by letter date. In the appendix, she provides a short biographical sketch of him.