Emma Spaulding Bryant

"Wooed by her ambitious schoolmaster, John Emory Bryant, Emma Spaulding became the Civil War bride of a radical Republican carpetbagger in Georgia. For Emma Spaulding, life might have been the simple story of a nineteenth-century woman in rural Maine. Instead, Emma Spaulding Bryant emerges as one of the more interesting women of nineteenth-century America." "In this collection of letters, Emma's writings reveal a woman of determination, faith, and integrity who embraced her own causes of women's rights and temperance while maintaining full support for her husband's controversial agenda. Covering her life in Buckfield, Maine, from her marriage to a captain in the Eighth Maine Infantry, to her move to Georgia as the wife of one of the prominent figures in Reconstruction politics, the letters open a window on what life was like for an intelligent, independent woman during three of America's most turbulent decades."--BOOK JACKET.