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Reviewed by Thomas E. Rodgers | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 105.1 | The History Cooperative
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A Fierce, Wild Joy
The Civil War Letters of Colonel Edward J. Wood, 48th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Edited by Stephen E. Towne
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007. Pp. xxviii, 296. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index. $38.00.)

A Fierce, Wild Joy presents the Civil War letters of Edward Jesup Wood of Goshen, Indiana. Some ninety letters written by Wood to his wife Jane (now held by the Indiana Historical Society) are presented in thirteen chronologically arranged chapters; an additional three letters, two written by Wood and published in Goshen newspapers, and a third penned by Wood's Confederate half-brother, appear in appendices. Editor Stephen E. Towne offers an informative and perspicacious introduction providing biographical data and an overview of the content and style of Wood's letters. He also provides brief introductions to each chapter, a postscript on Wood's postwar life, and numerous explanatory endnotes for the letters. . . .
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