"Far, Far From Home": The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers

In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home--published here for the first time--read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy. In their last year of college when the war broke out, Dick and Tally were hastily handed their diplomas so they could volunteer for military duty. Dick was twenty; Tally was twenty-two. Well educated, intelligent, and thoughtful young men, Dick and Tally cared deeply for their country, their family, and their comrades-in-arms and wrote frequently to their loved ones in Pendleton, South Carolina, offering firsthand accounts of dramatic events from the battle of First Manassas in July 1861 to the battle of Chickamauga in September 1863. Their letters provide a picture of war as it was actually experienced at the time, not as it was remembered some twenty or thirty years later. It is a picture that neither glorifies war nor condemns it, but simply "tells it like it is." Written to a number of different people, the boys' letters home dealt with a number of different subjects. Letters to "Pa" went into great detail about military matters in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia--troop movements, casualties, and how well particular units had fought; letters to "Ma" and sisters Anna and Mary were about camp life and family friends in the army and usually included requests for much-needed food and clothing; letters to Aunt Caroline and her daughter Carrie usually concerned affairs of the heart, for Aunt Caroline continued to be Dick and Tally's trusted confidante, even when they were "far, far from home." The value of these letters lies not so much in the detailed information they provide as in the overall picture they convey--a picture of how one Southern family, for better or for worse, at home and at the front--coped with the experience of war. These are not wartime reminiscences, but wartime letters, written from the camp, the battlefield, the hospital bed, the picket line--wherever the boys happened to be when they found time to write home. It is a poignant picture of war as it was actually experienced in the South as the Civil War unfolded.

Simpson, Dick

Simpson, Tally

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

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Politics & Government

Pearson

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Nowlan, James

O'Shaughnessy, Elizabeth

Democracy's Rebirth: The View from Chicago

Business & Money

Economics

University of Illinois Press

Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Where's mine?" and the public apathy it engenders has made our state and local politics a disgrace. In Corrupt Illinois, veteran political observers Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson take aim at business-as-usual. Naming names, the authors lead readers through a gallery of rogues and rotten apples to illustrate how generations of chicanery have undermined faith in, and hope for, honest government. From there, they lay out how to implement institutional reforms that provide accountability and eradicate the favoritism, sweetheart deals, and conflicts of interest corroding our civic life. Corrupt Illinois lays out a blueprint to transform our politics from a pay-to-play–driven marketplace into what it should be: an instrument of public good.

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Gradel, Thomas J.

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Lightfoot, Lori

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The Struggle for Power and Influence in Cities and States

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"Far, Far From Home": The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers

"Far, Far From Home": The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers

Inside Urban Politics: Voices From America'S Cities And Suburbs- (Value Pack w/MyLab Search)

Winning Elections: A Handbook In Modern Participatory Politics- (Value Pack w/MySearchLab)

Struggle For Power In Cities And States Of North America- (Value Pack w/MyLab Search)

Democracy's Rebirth: The View from Chicago

Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality

Democracy's Rebirth: The View from Chicago

Inside Urban Politics: Voices from America's Cities and Suburbs

The Struggle for Power and Influence in Cities and States