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After Chancellorsville, Letters from the Heart

The Civil War Letters of Private Walter G. Dunn & Emma Randolph

edited by Judith A. Bailey and Robert I. Cottom

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Emma Randolph, a young woman not yet twenty, wrote poignant letters to her distant cousin, Private Walter G. Dunn of the 11th New Jersey Infantry, as he lay in a crowded, filthy hospital ward during the Civil War after suffering the carnage of the battle of Chancellorsville. There, barely recovered, he aided overworked surgeons when the Gettysburg wounded poured into the city, and regularly took up his pen. Their correspondence related everyday events that became history.

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9
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278
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9780938420620
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Robert I. Cottom
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Robert I. Cottom

Ric Cottom is the host of WYPR’s Your Maryland. As Robert I. Cottom, Jr., he is the coauthor of Maryland in the Civil War: A House Divided and the coeditor of After Chancellorsville, Letters from the Heart: The Civil War Letters of Private Walter G. Dunn & Emma Randolph.