Delivered under fire Absalom Markland and freedom's mail
""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"--
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[Lincoln, Nebraska] :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
[2023]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Hooper, Candice Shy, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Delivered under fire : |b Absalom Markland and freedom's mail / |c Candice Shy Hooper. |
| 264 | 1 | |a [Lincoln, Nebraska] : |b Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, |c [2023] | |
| 300 | |a xii, 317 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Place of publication from publisher's website. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a ""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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Markland, Absalom H., |d -1888. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Letter carriers |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x History |y Civil War, 1861-1865 |x Postal service. | |
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