The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell: A Chaplain's Story

Acknowledgments

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 [-11], Lines —— * 53.1 —— Norm * PgEn [-11], acknowledgments  The Civil War letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell—nearly nine hundred pages are held by the Yale Collection of American Literature in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library—provide the basis for the selection that follows. We thank the Library, and especially Steve Jones, for access to the letters and for help in having them copied. We also thank Joseph Twichell’s descendants, Margaret Mowbray Jones, Chase Twichell, David C. Twichell, and Charles Ives Tyler for their help and encouragement. Our thanks, too, to Jacqui Clay, who did a first-class job of transcribing these letters from photocopy to wordprocessed form; to our editor at Georgia University Press, Nancy Grayson, a very supportive presence in the project; to Jon Davies, project editor, for his quietly thorough supervision of the publication process; to Gay Gragson, copy editor, for her attention to detail and substantive suggestions; to John McLeod, marketing and sales manager, and to Sandra Hudson, designer. Peter Messent wishes to thank the British Academy for its generous support that enabled him to do his share of the research for this project, and the University of Nottingham, which gave financial support for some of the costs involved. Steve Courtney would like to thank Asylum Hill Congregational Church, its senior minister, Gary Miller, its senior associate minister, Peter Grandy, and its Webmaster, Gery Krewson. Others who helped both of us enormously are Tess Allard, John W. Brinsfield, Janet Burkitt, Robert E. L. Crick, Diane Depew, Kerry Driscoll, Ellen Hollister, Jim Kuykendall, Thomas P. Lowry, Susan C. Martin, John Reazer, Wayne Rollins, Andrew H. Walsh, Thomas Adrian Wheat, and librarians at the Connecticut State Library, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Andover Newton Theological Seminary, the College of the Holy Cross, the Indiana State Library, the Library of Congress, and the Mark Twain Papers and Project at the University of California. And, of course, we wish to acknowledge the sacrifice and support of our beloved wives, Carin Messent and Lisa Bower Courtney. xi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 [-12], Line —— 14.3 —— Norm * PgEn [-12], 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 [-13], Lines —— 14.3 —— Norm * PgEn [-13], This page intentionally left blank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 [-15], Lines —— * 449 —— Norm * PgEn [-15], The Civil War Letters of Joseph Hopkins Twichell  This page intentionally left blank ...