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title	:	When This Cruel War Is Over : The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster
author	:	Brewster, Charles Harvey.; Blight, David W.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	087023773X
print isbn13	:	9780870237737
ebook isbn13	:	9780585254173
language	:	English
subject	Brewster, Charles Harvey,--1833-1893--Correspondence, United States.--Army.--Massachusetts.--Infantry Regiment, 10th (1861-1864)--Biography, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Massachusetts--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--P
publication date	:	1992
lcc	:	E513.5 10th.B74 1992eb
ddc	:	973.7/444/092
subject	:	Brewster, Charles Harvey,--1833-1893--Correspondence, United States.--Army.--Massachusetts.--Infantry Regiment, 10th (1861-1864)--Biography, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Massachusetts--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--P

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Page iii When This Cruel War Is Over The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster Edited with an introduction by David W. Blight The University of Massachusetts Press AMHERST

Page iv Copyright 1992 by Historic Northampton All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 91-38861 ISBN 0-87023-773-X Designed by Jack Harrison Set in Adobe Caslon by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brewster, Charles Harvey, 18331893. When this cruel war is over : the Civil War letters of Charles Harvey Brewster / edited with an introduction by David W. Blight. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87023-773-X (alk. paper) 1. Brewster, Charles Harvey, 18331893Correspondence. 2. United States. Army. Massachusetts. Infantry Regiment, 10th (18611864)Biography. 3. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Personal narratives. 4. MassachusettsHistoryCivil War, 18611865Personal narratives. 5. SoldiersMassachusettsCorrespondence. I. Blight, David W. II. Title. E513.5 10th.B74 1992 973.7'444'092dc 20 [B] 91-38861 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. Frontispiece: Portrait of Lt. Charles Harvey Brewster, Adjutant, Tenth Massachusetts Volunteers, c. 1864. Courtesy of Jonathan Allured Maps reproduced on pages 2 and 98 from The Civil War by Day, by E. B. Long. Copyright 1971 by E. B. Long. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

Page v Contents Preface by James M. Parsons vii Editorial Method and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 1. My Commission: July 1861January 1862 25 2. My Contraband: JanuaryMarch 1862 77 3. Oh It Was a Fearful, Fearful Sight: MarchJuly 1862 99 4. I Don't Know Where It Is All to End: September 1862March 1863 181 5. We Gained Great Glory but at What a Sacrifice: AprilSeptember 1863 220 6. If My Life Is Only Spared: October 1863February 1864 259 7. Terrible, Terrible Business: MarchJune 1864 279 8. Living among Strangers: JulyNovember 1864 320 Epilogue: Like Everything Else in This World War Is "Kinder Mixed": Letters from Mary Kate Brewster's Journals transcribed in 1893 337 Notes 349

Page vii Preface In the fall of 1983, while working as a volunteer at the Northampton Historical Society, I chanced upon a set of four journals containing a series of letters.* Written between 1861 and 1864, the letters recorded the Civil War experiences of Charles Harvey Brewster, a native of Northampton who had served with the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment. Yet, curiously, they were not written in Brewster's own hand. They had been copied into the journals many years after the war by one of Brewster's daughters, Mary Kate Brewster. Interesting as the letters were, I doubt that I would have paid them much notice had I not also discovered, tucked between the pages of one volume, the original version of one of the transcriptions. A quick comparison of the two documents revealed that Miss Brewster had been a zealous editor, freely deleting or substantially altering entire passages. The changes seemed to reflect the good intentions of a daughter eager to portray her father in a favorable light, but I could not help wondering how much had been lost as a result of her editorial efforts. Fortunately, the letter kept with the journals was not the only original to survive. More than two hundred others were in the possession of Brewster's grandson, Jonathan Allured. When I made contact with Allured at his home in Hickory, North Carolina, he invited me to visit and examine the letters firsthand. The treasure trove of Civil War memorabilia I found in his basement exceeded all expectation. In addition to his grandfather's correspondence, Jonathan Allured held more than a hundred Civil War letters from other members of the family, swords, spurs, commissions, photographs, a daily journal, and other assorted documents from the front. The two of us spent a weekend poring over the various artifacts, after which Allured graciously offered to loan the entire letter collection to the Northampton Historical Society.

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