Alonzo's War by O'Shaughnessy Mary Searing;O'Shaughnessy Mary Searing;

Alonzo's War by O'Shaughnessy Mary Searing;O'Shaughnessy Mary Searing;

Author:O'Shaughnessy, Mary Searing;O'Shaughnessy, Mary Searing; [O'Shaughnessy, Mary Searing]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00


Daguerreotype of Alonzo, aged 18, taken in September 1862 by a traveling photographer when Alonzo was in Camp Grover, Virginia. He had been in the army about one month (see Letter 7). Photograph courtesy of Mary Searing O’Shaughnessy.

After Alonzo used his letters to Phebe to write the newspaper’s Veterans Column he bundled them and stored them in his attic where they were found years later by his son Carl. This is one of the bundles. Photograph courtesy of Mary Searing O’Shaughnessy.

Alonzo kept a yearly diary for many years. These are pages from his 1863 diary telling of the Battle of Gettysburg. Photograph courtesy of Mary Searing O’Shaughnessy.



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