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ISBN
9780820363448
Book Title
Private No more : the Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry
Book Series
New Perspectives on the Civil War Era Ser.
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Item Length
9.2 in
Publication Year
2023
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Sharon A. Roger Hepburn
Genre
History
Topic
United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / General, African American
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Width
6.2 in
Number of Pages
162 Pages
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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820363448
ISBN-13
9780820363448
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15057250243

Product Key Features

Book Title
Private No more : the Civil War Letters of John Lovejoy Murray, 102nd United States Colored Infantry
Number of Pages
162 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States / General, African American
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
Sharon A. Roger Hepburn
Book Series
New Perspectives on the Civil War Era Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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LCCN
2022-031525
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
This collection of the letters of an African American Union Army soldier during the Civil War represents a welcome addition to the published collections of soldier correspondence from that conflict, in which Black voices have been badly underrepresented. The research is quite impressive and illuminating, and the footnotes do much to contextualize the letters and add value to the presentation., Private No More adds significantly to our understanding about the diversity of USCT soldiers and their experiences. It is a must read for those interested in Civil War soldiers' letters, the common soldier, and the conflict in the Department of the South., As a largely intact collection of private papers written by a northern black soldier to family members unedited by an outside source, Private No More is extremely rare and will be greatly appreciated by Civil War historians.
Dewey Decimal
973.73092
Synopsis
The John Lovejoy Murray collection of letters contains insights into the experiences of an African American soldier and his regiment during the Civil War. John Lovejoy Murray, a private in Company E, 102nd USCT, died of disease in a Charleston hospital on April 12, 1865. Through John Murray's letters, readers can experience the war through the eyes of a literate northern Black soldier. His is the story of the soldiers who did not receive accolades for their heroic actions in battle, the ones who spent more time on picket and fatigue duty than on the front lines, the ones who died from disease more than they did of battle-related wounds. Murray's letters are significant because they are ordinary in some respects yet extraordinary in others. Some of the activities and sentiments portrayed in the letters are hardly distinguishable from those described in letters written by White soldiers. In other ways, the letters represent a perspective distinctly from a Black soldier in the Union army. Although many of his experiences may have been typical, John Lovejoy Murray himself, a literate, freeborn, northern Black man, was atypical among Union Black soldiers.
LC Classification Number
E514.5

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