Melvan Tibbetts was a Union soldier occupying Pensacola for a portion of the Civil War. We are very lucky to have the 20 letters that he wrote home to his family in Maine. These letters supply a wealth of information about West Florida during the Civil War, but they also provide a strong sense of familiarity with Melvan himself. This presentation demonstrates how much of an author’s personality is contained in historical documents and how this results in a more personal understanding of the past for the reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Presented by: Melvan Tibbetts was a Union soldier occupying Pensacola for a portion of the Civil War. We are very lucky to have the 20 letters that he wrote home to his family in Maine. These letters supply a wealth of information about West Florida during the Civil War, but they also provide a strong sense of … Continue reading “\u201cDear Friends at Home\u201d: Becoming Acquainted with a Civil War Soldier Through His Letters Home”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[33,40,19],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-history","tag-fpan-north-central","tag-melvan-tibbetts","tag-pensacola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panhandlehistoricalliance.org\/speakers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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