02725oam 22006013 450 991100898490332120240222185737.09781640125766(electronic bk.)9781640124486(MiAaPQ)EBC30349693(Au-PeEL)EBL30349693(CKB)26050376000041(OCoLC)1365539953(MdBmJHUP)musev2_103721(OCoLC)1369643945(EXLCZ)992605037600004120230127d2023 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDelivered under fire Absalom Markland and freedom's mail /Candice Shy Hooper1st ed.Wageningen :Potomac Books, Incorporated,2023.©2023.1 online resource (352 pages)Print version: Hooper, Candice Shy Delivered under Fire Wageningen : Potomac Books, Incorporated,c2023 9781640124486 Prologue: April 14, 1865 -- A Boy of the Buffalo Trace: 1825-55 -- A Man in Search of a Mission: 1856-61 -- Absalom Markland, Special Agent: 1861-62 -- "An Honored & Favored Man": February-September 1862 -- "The Flood of Letters": September 1862-64 -- "Twenty Tons of Mail": 1864 -- "Trains Have Stopped Running, Except for the Mail": January-April 1865 -- "A Mark of Friendship and Esteem": April 1865-November 1868 -- "Our Continued Services Together": 1868-71 -- The "Colonel" Becomes a "General": 1872-84 -- A Man in Search of Himself: 1885-88 -- Epilogue: 1889-Today.""Delivered Under Fire" tells the harrowing story of a U.S. Post Office special agent who risked his life to protect and transfer some of the most personal and valuable connections between war and home"--Provided by publisher.Postal servicefast(OCoLC)fst01072885Letter carriersfast(OCoLC)fst00996685Employeesfast(OCoLC)fst00909111Armed ForcesPostal servicefast(OCoLC)fst01351855Letter carriersUnited StatesBiographyUnited StatesfastUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Postal serviceHistory.Biographies.Postal service.Letter carriers.Employees.Armed ForcesPostal service.Letter carriers383/.492BHooper Candice Shy1630117MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9911008984903321Delivered under fire4393936UNINA