Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America Clayton Owen
Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America Clayton Owen Ladies' man. Civil War hero. Egotist. Tramp. Drunkard. Child soldier. Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a…
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Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America Clayton Owen
Ladies' man. Civil War hero. Egotist. Tramp. Drunkard. Child soldier.
Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America tells the story of an American hobo entirely in his own words.William 'Roving Bill' Aspinwall was all of these things and yet no lone descriptor does him justice. Published author. Born one of 23 siblings, married 5 times, wounded fighting for the Union in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, kicked out of numerous jobs and soldiers' homes for drunkenness, and having spent decades wandering as a penniless vagabond, Bill also kept up a 24-year correspondence with John James McCook, Professor of Modern Languages at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
In so doing Bill provided the earliest and best account of life on the road by an American hobo.Written between 1893 and 1917, Roving