Illinois in the War of 1812 Jaime Munoz historian John McCurdy tells this

historian John McCurdy tells this compelling story of male intimacy and provides an unparalleled glimpse inside eighteenth-century perceptions of queerness

but rather its reconfiguration

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Tracy's letters home follow his journey as a soldier and prisoner of war from his enlistment in September 1862 through the end of the war in May 1865

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Illinois in the War of 1812 Jaime Munoz historian John McCurdy tells thisOn the eve of the War of 1812, the Illinois Territory was a new land of bright promise. The new territory ran from the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers north to the U. S. border with Canada, embracing the current states of Illinois and Wisconsin, together with a part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. By 1812 immigrant farmers had gathered in the wooded fringes around prime agricultural land, looking out over the prairies with longing and