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Member Showcase: May 2012

Jeff Toalson

 

Author of

Mama, I Am Yet Still Alive: A Composite Diary of 1863 in the Confederacy

 

Tune in to XTRA 99.1FM to hear the author interviewed by Neal Steele on CBW's re-scheduled Monthly broadcast, May 23rd at about 8:05AM. If you miss the live broadcast, return here for the podcast.

 

About the Book

 

Mama, I Am Yet Still Alive is a groundbreaking study of life in the Confederacy during 1863 and a companion volume to No Soap, No Pay, Diarrhea, Dysentery & Desertion.

 

Civil War studies normally focus on military battles, campaigns, generals and politicians, with the common Confederate soldiers and Southern civilians receiving only token mention.  Using personal accounts from more than two hundred forty soldiers, farmers, clerks, nurses, sailors, farm girls, merchants, surgeons, chaplains and wives, author Jeff Toalson has created a compilation that is remarkable in its simplicity and stunning in its scope.

 

These soldiers and civilians wrote remarkable letters and kept astonishing diaries and journals.  They discuss disease, slavery, inflation, religion, desertion, blockade running, and their never-ending hope that the war would end before their loved ones died.  Most of these unpublished documents were made available by the Brewer Library of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

 

With this, his third significant contribution to Civil War literature, Jeff Toalson joins the select company of Thomas W. Cutrer and Bell I. Wiley as historians who have devoted their body of work to preserving the ‘voices’ of common Confederate soldiers and civilians.

 

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About the Author

Missouri native Jeff Toalson earned a BS in business management from Missouri State University.

After the successful 2006 release of No Soap, No Pay, Diarrhea, Dysentery & Desertion, a groundbreaking study of life during the final sixteen months of the Confederacy, Jeff began work on the wartime letters of Richard and Mary Watkins.

 

Entitled Send Me a Pair of Old Boots and Kiss My Little Girls: The Civil War Letters of Richard and Mary Watkins, 1861-1865, the second book, with the collaboration of CBW member and playwright, Rob Ruffin, was turned into a successful play first performed in Gloucester.

  Toalson's April 2011 interview about this book.

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Toalson lives in Williamsburg, Virginia with his wife, Jan..

 

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