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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Tomlinson, Will (1823-1863)
Titre(s) : The printer's kiss [Texte imprimé] : the life and letters of a Civil War newspaperman and his family / edited by Patricia A. Donohoe
Publication : Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : xxvii, 300 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm
Collection : Civil War in the North
Lien à la collection : Civil War in the North
Comprend : Introduction ; Cast of historical characters ; Tomlinson's origins ; Eliza's heritage
; Bringing forth ; Looking for relief ; Together and apart ; Collision courses
; Volunteer frenzy ; Rushed waiting ; Into the hills ; Curse this idleness! ;
Mustering men and courage ; Mountain desperadoes ; Disarmed ; Hatching new hope
; Attacks from within and without ; This sea of passion ; Nursing the wounded ;
Close to home ; Partisan fever ; Freedom's casket ; Epilogue: The journey of the
letters ; Appendix: List of newspapers edited and published by Will Tomlinson.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index
In language that resonates with power and beauty, this compilation of personal letters
written from 1844 to 1864 tells the compelling story of controversial newspaper editor
Will Tomlinson, his opinionated wife (Eliza Wylie Tomlinson), and their two children
in the treacherous borderlands around that "abolitionist hellhole," Ripley, Ohio.
The Printer's Kiss includes many of Tomlinson's columns that appeared in the Ripley
Bee and excerpts from a short story in the Columbian Magazine. It features his letters
to his family and a remarkable number of letters from Eliza and the children to Tomlinson
while he was away during the Civil War, serving variously as quartermaster sergeant
for the Fifth Ohio, as captain of a company of counterinsurgents in West Virginia,
as an independent scout and spy in Kentucky, as a nurse on a hospital boat, and as
a compositor for the Cincinnati Gazette. During his career, Tomlinson published ten
newspapers in Ohio and one in Iowa, where he lived from 1854 to 1860. Described by
his contemporaries as brilliant and erratic, coarse and literary, Tomlinson left a
trail of ink covering topics ranging from antislavery sentiment to spiritualist fervor
and partisan politics. His personal writings reveal the man behind the press, disappointed
by his weakness for alcohol and by Eliza's refusal to condone his plan to raise a
Negro company. His eloquent descriptions ache with the discomfort of standing fourteen
hours at a compositor's table, shooting cattle to feed soldiers, and having to defend
himself against accusations of adultry. Eliza's letters pulse with the fears of a
Union family on the lookout for slave hunters, Morgan's Raiders, and bad news from
the battlefield. Like her husband, she freely condemns inept politicians and southern
rebels. She also questions her husand's military competence, but she usually writes
about domestic matters--the children, friends, and finances. The intimate details
in these letters will engage readers with suspenseful accounts of survival in the
borderlands during the Civil War, camp life, and guerrilla warfare and commentary
on political and military events, journalism in the mid-1800s, and the roles of women
and children. Most importantly, readers will be exposed to the story of how one articulate
and loyal Union family refused to give up hope when faced with tragic disruption.
-- Book jacket flaps
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Tomlinson, Eliza Wylie (1815-1885). Auteur de lettres
Donohoe, Patricia A. (1944-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Rédacteurs en chef -- États-Unis
États-Unis -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
Récits personnels
Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
071.309 034 (23e éd.)
Numéros : ISBN 978-1-60635-216-8 (hardcover). - ISBN 1606352164 (hardcover)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44364042p
Notice n° :
FRBNF44364042
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