| | Of Love and WarThe Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. BallEdited by Carlyn E. Kahl and Andrew Hillhouse
Transcribed by Anne Ball Ryals
Of Love and War: The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of
Augustus V. Ball is not a typical Civil War letter collection. Ball's
circumstances and experiences allowed him to glimpse the war
through two sets of eyes, that of a loving husband, and of an
increasingly disillusioned physician. The inclusion of Ball's
medicinal recipe book is the first of its kind to appear in print
completely annotated. Readers will find themselves not only
sympathetic to the struggles of one newlywed couple, but educated
about the medical and herbal lore of that era.
During the war, Ball and his wife, Argent, managed to stay in
contact, not only with each other, but with their various friends and
family throughout the South. Ball's letters home give an account of
one man's experiences in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the Civil
War with the Twenty-third Texas Cavalry, and later with McMahan's
Light Artillery Battery. The mail he and his wife received from others
gives a cross-section of the Southern experience in general.
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ANNE BALL RYALS of Montgomery, Alabama, transcribed the
letters with great regard for the principals, Augustus and Argent, her
great-grandparents. CARLYN E. KAHL is the former Managing Editor
of State House Press/McWhiney Foundation Press in Abilene,
Texas. ANDREW HILLHOUSE is a graduate student in Molecular
Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Missouri in
Columbia, Missouri.
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Of Love and War
978-1-893114-54-8
hardcover
$24.95
6x9. 176 pp.
3 maps. App.
Notes. Bib. Index.
Civil War History.
Medical.
Delayed until
SPRING 2009
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