Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom's Mail

Article Title: ‘Delivered Under Fire’: the man who moved the Union’s mail during the Civil War

Article Excerpt: "To historian and author Candice Shy Hooper, whose ancestors fought on both sides of the conflict, it is the astonishing performance of the Northern mail system, and, in particular, the life story of the devoted civilian called the “messenger of joy” who organized and led it, that deserves to be memorialized and celebrated after all these years. “There are a hundred thousand books about the Civil War, and that’s just the ones that they can count,” Hooper told Linn’s Stamp News at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., in December. “Yet I could not find any of them that explained how the letters that they all cite were delivered.” “How did the mail get through?...Delivered Under Fire: the man who moved the Union’s mail during the Civil War"

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