Large portions of chapter 5 appeared previously in “‘The Terrors and Trials of War’: The Civil War Papers of Henry and Cimbaline Fike,” Missouri Historical Review 115, no. 2 (January 2021): 107–133.
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Names: Fike, Lucy Cimbaline, 1833–1906. | Neely, Jeremy, 1975– editor. | Fike, Henry C., 1832–1919.
Title: A union tested : the Civil War letters of Cimbaline and Henry Fike / Jeremy Neely.
Other titles: Civil War letters of Cimbaline and Henry Fike
Description: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2025] | Series: New perspectives on the Civil War era | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024025224 | ISBN 9780820369440 (hardback) | ISBN 9780820369457 (paperback) | ISBN 9780820369464 (epub) | ISBN 9780820369471 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Fike, Lucy Cimbaline, 1833–1906—Correspondence. | Fike, Henry, 1832–1919—Correspondence. | United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Personal narratives. | Illinois—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Personal narratives. | United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 117th (1862–1865) | Quartermasters—Illinois—Correspondence. | Women—Illinois—Mascoutah—Correspondence. | Fike family. | Mascoutah (Ill.)--Biography.
Classification: LCC E505.5 117th .F55 2025
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024025224