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Marriage on the BorderLove, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War$
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Marriage on the Border: Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War

Allison Dorothy Fredette

Print publication date: 2020

Print ISBN-13: 9780813179155

Published to Kentucky Scholarship Online: September 2020

DOI: 10.5810/kentucky/9780813179155.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

A Blended Family

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Marriage on the Border
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Allison Dorothy Fredette

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University Press of Kentucky
DOI:10.5810/kentucky/9780813179155.003.0001

Amanda Sterling was born on the western edge of the Ohio River in the early 1830s. Her small township of Pease, Ohio, lay across the river from the industrial city of Wheeling, Virginia, and her early life reflected the fluidity of this watery boundary between two states. By her late teens, she had worked as a hired girl in homes from Bridgeport and Martins Ferry, Ohio, to Wheeling....

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