{"product_id":"9781931112741","title":"Troubled State: Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick","description":"Troubled State is the private Civil War journals of Franklin Archibald Dick, a St. Louis attorney and brother-in-law of Union Major General Frank Blair, Jr., who was concerned about keeping Missouri pro-Union during the turbulent Civil War years. Franklin Dick's perspective of important historical events include the early Camp Jackson incident when he was Captain Nathaniel Lyon's assistant adjutant general, and when he served as Missouri's provost marshal general under Major General Samuel Curtis. After the war, Franklin Dick practiced law with Montgomery Blair, President Lincoln's postmaster general. Gari Carter's great-great-grandfather never intended for anyone to read the private worries in his journals. His views on the politics and daily life of the country, state, and leaders he knew, and his concerns about morality, were thoughts he usually kept to himself. Pressures from the war changed the entries from optimistic to sorrowful and doubtful about the future, and he asked, \"In what does happiness consist?\" Franklin Dick's record of American life during the Civil War gives us an irreplaceable new perspective on the impact of history in our lives.\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Truman State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059540607216,"sku":"9781931112741","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931112741_p0.jpg?v=1763637936","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931112741","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}