Delivered under fire : Absalom Markland and freedom's mail / / Candice Shy Hooper
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| Autore: |
Hooper Candice Shy
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| Titolo: |
Delivered under fire : Absalom Markland and freedom's mail / / Candice Shy Hooper
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| Pubblicazione: | Wageningen : , : Potomac Books, Incorporated, , 2023 |
| ©2023 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (352 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 383/.492 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Postal service |
| Letter carriers | |
| Employees | |
| Armed Forces - Postal service | |
| Letter carriers - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States |
| United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Postal service | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
| Biographies. | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Delivered under fire |
| ISBN: | 9781640125766 |
| 9781640124486 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911008984903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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