Neverhome

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Neverhome could not have come into being without the help and support of Linda K. Wickens, Susan Schulten, Susie Schlesinger, Susan Manchester, Kathryn Hunt, Selah Saterstrom, Eva Sikelianos Hunt, K. Allison Wickens, Harry Mathews, Anna Stein, Chris Fischbach, Josh Kendall, Nicole Dewey, Miriam Parker, Pamela Marshall, Garrett McGrath, and Eleni Sikelianos (always). Profound thanks also to the Lannan Residency Program in Marfa, Texas.

A few of the many excellent works I consulted during the writing of Neverhome deserve special mention: Dearest Susie: A Civil War Infantryman’s Letters to His Sweetheart by Frank Ross McGregor; The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm, edited by W. Springer Menge and J. August Shimrak; Turned Inside Out: Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac by Frank Wilkeson; The Slaves’ War by Andrew Ward; This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust; They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the Civil War by DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook; and, most crucially, An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, Alias Private Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862–1864 by Lauren Cook Burgess.

The Southern Landscapes and battlefield photographs of Sally Mann were indispensable in helping me travel with Ash through mid-nineteenth-century America, as were the first two New History Warfare albums of Colin Stetson and the song “Sorrow, Sorrow” by Lorna Hunt.