{"product_id":"a-union-tested-jeremy-neely-9780820369457","title":"A Union Tested: The Civil War Letters of Cimbaline and Henry Fike","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume reveals how an ordinary American couple, Cimbaline and Henry Fike, wrote their way through struggles that challenged the survival of both their nation and marriage. Drawing on hundreds of letters exchanged between 1862 and 1865, \u003ci\u003eA Union Tested\u003c\/i\u003e details the lives of an Illinois homemaker and a quartermaster in the Union army and reveals how Civil War correspondence sustained relationships disrupted by war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his research Jeremy Neely found that such letters became an epistolary bridge that sustained families--wives and husbands, parents and children, brothers and sisters--across the years and miles that stretched between them during the tumult of war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Fikes' years-long correspondence shows how a fully formed marriage reconstituted itself within the handwritten lines the couple cast across hundreds of miles. Amid the extraordinary circumstances of wartime, writing to one another prompted a remarkable degree of self-reflection and provided for each the space to learn anew about their partners, their country, and themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Neely\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820369454\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820369457\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jeremy Neely","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46250410213631,"sku":"9780820369457","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_79c57a36-4cdb-47ae-816b-4496ba9e9729.jpg?v=1729600258","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-union-tested-jeremy-neely-9780820369457","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}