If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and a Cause in the Civil War

If I Can Get Home This Fall chronicles the epic story of Dan Mason, a white man...
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Author: Tyler Alexander
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If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and a Cause in the Civil War by Alexander, Tyler

If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and a Cause in the Civil War

$36.95

If I Can Get Home This Fall: A Story of Love, Loss, and a Cause in the Civil War

$36.95
Author: Tyler Alexander
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
If I Can Get Home This Fall chronicles the epic story of Dan Mason, a white man who served in the Civil War as a soldier in the Sixth Vermont Infantry and as an officer in the Nineteenth U.S. Colored Troops. It is a story of these two units from very different realities but with a common purpose.

Drawing on Mason's letters home to his fiancé, Harriet Clark, and on other historical records, Tyler Alexander provides a compelling account of the human cost of war and offers insight about the experiences and attitudes of those who witnessed war firsthand, including enlisted troops and officers, men and women, Democrats and Republicans, and white and Black Americans. Alexander examines how the most controversial issues of the war--emancipation, the draft, military strategy, the arming of Black troops, and Reconstruction policy--were viewed in real time by the participants who found themselves engulfed in the maelstrom of war, particularly those from a strongly anti-slavery farming community in the hills of northeast Vermont. The voices from this distant time offer an example of what real patriotism, courage, and moral conviction look like in times of extreme national divisions over race, identity, and the meaning of democracy.


Author: Tyler Alexander
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 09/01/2025
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.34w x 1.27d
ISBN: 9781640126664


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 08/01/2025 pg. 76

About the Author
Tyler Alexander is an educator in Vermont who teaches American history and government. He is a former James Madison Fellow and studied forestry, history, and education at the University of Maine and the University of Vermont. One of Alexander's ancestors served alongside Dan Mason in Company D of the Sixth Vermont.

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