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Overview
The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries contains more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, to provide access to thousands of views on almost every aspect of the war. Collection includes 200 letters written by Amos Wood, his wife Clara, and their three-year-old son, Freddie, illustrating what life was like for a Massachusetts family separated by the war.
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The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries contains 100,000 pages of text, including 4,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscript material. It also includes more than 400 sources of diaries, letters, and memoirs, providing access to views on almost every aspect of the war. Collection includes 200 letters written by Amos Wood, his wife Clara, and their three-year-old son, Freddie, illustrating what life was like for a Massachusetts family separated by the war. Users can see and compare, the writings of politicians, generals, slaves, landowners, seamen, and spies. The letters and diaries are by the famous and the unknown, giving both the Northern and the Southern perspectives, along with that of foreign observers. While The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries is part of The American Civil War Online package, CRL is only offering this one part of the package.
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The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries is available on the Web, either through one-time purchase of perpetual rights or annual subscription. Libraries that purchase perpetual rights will also receive an archival copy of the data. The CRL offer is only for the one time purchase of perpetual access to The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries.
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This product's strength is its search and browse abilities. It uses Alexander Street's Semantic Indexing. With the indexing and newly created thesaurus lists, users can browse the contents of the database by seven tables of contents, including lists by authors, source works, months, places, battles, key personal events, and day by day. Full-text searching of words or phrases can be limited by the writer’s gender, age, allegiance, residence, race, religion, occupation, schools attended, educational level, military rank and status, marital and parental status, age of death, and cause of death. Other search fields include day, week, and month written, geographical location where written, setting (hospital, prison, etc.), battles discussed, even the number of days before death that the material was written. Users can choose to search just letters, diaries, or memoirs.
Additional Reviews in Other Sources
- ccAdvisor - Review of American Civil War, The (accessed October 2017)
- Previously reviewed in The Charleston Advisor. Ellie Dworak, "The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries," The Charleston Advisor July, 2006, 8(1): 9, (accessed August 2015).
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