{"product_id":"my-own-dear-wife-robin-l-white-9781519571403","title":"My Own Dear Wife: A Yankee Couple's Civil War","description":"Four days after Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter, Dr. Bowman Breed was on a train headed south, leaving behind his wife Hannah and their four-month-old son, Isaiah. Before he left, he and Hannah vowed to write to each other every day, if even \"just a line.\" Bowman served throughout the war, moving from the hospitals of Washington, D.C., to the shores of North Carolina and Virginia, on to guerrilla-infested Missouri and, finally, the hills of western Tennessee. During long stretches of the war, Hannah joined him in the field, giving her the perspective of both a worried wife on the home front and a correspondent from the front lines. Although they often complained of having to communicate through \"the medium of these dull pens,\" Bowman recognized that each \"precious\" letter was a living piece of his beloved back home. \"The touch of the hand in tracing the lines seems to leave a sort of electricity on the paper which pervades it always,\" he wrote from a camp outside Baltimore in late June 1861. \"Did you ever come upon the handwriting of some one long since gone and have the touch of the paper thrill you with a long forgotten sensation ...\" Their letters, about 1,000 in all, provide a nearly daily journal of the Civil War, told through the eyes of one Yankee couple. And, all these years later, they still have that same \"electricity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robin L. White, Allen G. Breed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1519571402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781519571403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.47d","brand":"Robin L. White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46217015886079,"sku":"9781519571403","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ba9500c1-5141-4296-8f9f-cd3e39818d1d.jpg?v=1728514028","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-own-dear-wife-robin-l-white-9781519571403","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}