Author:
Hooper, Candice Shy, author.
Imprint[Lincoln] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Descriptionxii, 317 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note:Prologue: April 14, 1865 -- A Boy of the Buffalo Trace: 1825-55 -- A Man in Search of a Mission: 1856-61 -- Absalom Markland, Special Agent: 1861-62 -- "An Honored & Favored Man": February-September 1862 -- "The Flood of Letters": September 1862-64 -- "Twenty Tons of Mail": 1864 -- "Trains Have Stopped Running, Except for the Mail": January-April 1865 -- "A Mark of Friendship and Esteem": April 1865-November 1868 -- "Our Continued Services Together": 1868-71 -- The "Colonel" Becomes a "General": 1872-84 -- A Man in Search of Himself: 1885-88 -- Epilogue: 1889-Today.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index.
Note:""Delivered Under Fire" tells the harrowing story of a U.S. Post Office special agent who risked his life to protect and transfer some of the most personal and valuable connections between war and home."-- Provided by publisher.
