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 Athens, 1861-1865
As Seen Through Letters in the University of Georgia Libraries
Kenneth Coleman

ISBN 0820302538 paper • $12.50

132 pp. • 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.

"This little book is exactly what its title says it is: a picture of life on the home front during the Civil War in a small but important Georgia city - Athens, 'as seen through letters.'.It might be any small town in Georgia or the South. They make fascinating reading"
—Savannah News-Press

"The chief author of these letters is Mrs. Mary Lamar Cobb, wife of a general who was also a former governor of the state, mother of 12 with three sons in the Confederate Army and a baby son learning to walk.Uniforms were handmade, the horses confiscated, the citizens scared, and the food sometimes short"
—Asheville Citizen-Times