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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Table of Contents:
- 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.
