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- Book Title
- William Howard Russell's Civil War : Private Diary and Letters, 1
- ISBN
- 9780820332000
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
- Publication Name
- William Howard Russell's Civil War : Private Diary and Letters, 1861-1862
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Subject
- United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Historical, United States / General
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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Having won renown in the 1850s for his vivid warfront dispatches from the Crimea, William Howard Russell was the most celebrated foreign journalist in America during the first year of the Civil War. As a special correspondent for The Times of London, Russell was charged with explaining the American crisis to a British audience, but his reports also had great impact in America. They so alienated both sides, North and South, that Russell was forced to return to England prematurely in April 1862. My Diary North and South (1863), Russell's published account of his visit, remains a classic of Civil War literature. It was not in fact a diary but a narrative reconstruction of the author's journeys and observations based on his private notebooks and published dispatches. Despite his severe criticisms of American society and conduct, Russell offered in that work generally sympathetic characterizations of the Northern and Southern leadership during the war. In this new volume, Martin Crawford brings together the journalist's original diary and a selection of his private correspondence to resurrect the fully uninhibited Russell and to provide, accordingly, a true documentary record of this important visitor's first impressions of America during the early months of its greatest crisis. Over the course of his American visit, Russell traveled widely throughout the Union and the new Confederacy, meeting political and social leaders on both sides. Included here are spontaneous--and often unflattering--comments on such prominent figures as William H. Seward, Jefferson Davis, Mary Todd Lincoln, and George B. McClellan, as well as quick sketches of New York, Washington, New Orleans, and other cities. Also revealed for the first time are the anxiety and despair that Russell experienced during his American visit--a state induced by his own self-doubt, by concern over the health and situation of his wife in England, and, finally, by the bitter criticism he received in the United States over his reports. A sometimes vain and pompous figure, Russell also emerges here as an individual of exceptionally tough spirit--a man who abhorred slavery and remained convinced of the essential rectitude of the Northern cause even as he criticized Northern leaders, their lack of preparedness for war, and the apparent disunity of the Northern population.
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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820332003
ISBN-13
9780820332000
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78803264
Product Key Features
Publication Name
William Howard Russell's Civil War : Private Diary and Letters, 1861-1862
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Historical, United States / General
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E167.R9636 2008
Reviews
"From these private pages emerges a foreign observer who was deeply moved by the tenacity both of the North and South."-- Georgia Historical Quarterly, "This book is a worthy piece of work. It enhances our understanding of the attitudes of a famed observer of the beginning of the Civil War."-- Journal of Southern History, Martin Crawford is to be commended for his tactful but sure touch as editor. . . . As it is, this volume is a most welcome edition to [Russell's rich journalistic and historical legacy."-- Washington Post, "Martin Crawford is to be commended for his tactful but sure touch as editor. . . . As it is, this volume is a most welcome edition to [Russell's] rich journalistic and historical legacy."-- Washington Post, "Martin Crawford is to be commended for his tactful but sure touch as editor. . . . As it is, this volume is a most welcome edition to [Russell's] rich journalistic and historical legacy."--Washington Post, "From these private pages emerges a foreign observer who was deeply moved by the tenacity both of the North and South."--Georgia Historical Quarterly
Original Language
English
Copyright Date
1992
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
973.782
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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