Published 1982
by D.C. Griffin in Lincoln, Neb .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | compiled and annotated by Doris C. Griffin. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | MLCS 84/6308 (F) |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 27 p., [2] p. of plates : |
| Number of Pages | 27 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL2814607M |
| LC Control Number | 83462888 |
LETTER ONE: Samuel Cabble, a private in the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry (colored), was a slave before he joined the army. He was twenty-one years old. Massachusetts, Dear Wife, I have enlisted in the army I am now in the state of Massachusetts but before this letter reaches you i will be in North Carolina and though great is the present national difficulties yet I look forward to a. When the American Civil War began in , citizens on both sides of the conflict were driven by equally passionate convictions. One young volunteer was Sullivan Ballou, a year-old lawyer who joined the Union army shortly after war was declared. On J , he wrote the following letter to his wife File Size: KB. His remains were repatriated to a tomb in the Waterloo Museum’s garden in Heyland’a wife Mary carried the letter with her for forty years, until her death in From a field at Camp Clark, Washington in July , a Union Officer in the Civil War named Major Sullivan Ballou writes to his loving wife a week before his death. Chiefly Civil War letters from McBride to his financée, later wife, Mary Frances (Johnson) McBride, while he served with the 10th Georgia Regiment. Subjects include camp life, the 1st battle of Bull Run, the Battle of the Wilderness, the Union Army's destruction of Jonesboro, Ga. (), and Sherman's march through Georgia.
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