The Whartons' War The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton & Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865 (William C. Davis, Sue Heth Bell - DLM) porcelain we can in turn appreciate

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by Mark Snell

Woods restores Davis and Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers to the center of the Civil War era

The Whartons' War The Civil War Correspondence of General Gabriel C. Wharton & Anne Radford Wharton, 1863–1865 (William C. Davis, Sue Heth Bell - DLM) porcelain we can in turn appreciateby William C. Davis & Sue Heth Bell, foreward by Peter S. Carmichael Between March 1863 and July 1865, Confederate newlyweds Brigadier General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton wrote 524 letters, and all survived, unknown until now. Separated by twenty years in age and differing opinions on myriad subjects, these educated and articulate Confederates wrote frankly and perceptively on their Civil War world. Sharing opinions on generals and