Format:
1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781640125766
Content:
Delivered Under Fire is the biography of the U.S. Post Office special agent who risked his life to protect mail that contained some of the most personal and valuable information during the Civil War
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
,
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. A Boy of the Buffalo Trace -- 2. A Man in Search of a Mission -- 3. Absalom Markland, Special Agent -- 4. "An Honored & -- Favored Man" -- 5. "The Flood of Letters" -- 6. "Twenty Tons of Mail" -- 7. "Trains Have Stopped Running, Except for the Mail" -- 8. "A Mark of Friendship and Esteem" -- 9. "Our Continued Services Together" -- 10. The "Colonel" Becomes a "General" -- 11. A Man in Search of Himself -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hooper, Candice Shy Delivered under Fire Minneapolis : Potomac Books, Incorporated,c2023 ISBN 9781640124486
Language:
English
Bookmarklink