New PDF release: Your Affectionate Son: Letters from a Civil War Soldier

By Milann Ruff Daugherty

ISBN-10: 1595716831

ISBN-13: 9781595716835

"We pray Heaven she can have her gift in seeing uprising quickly beaten, the union restored, and each part, each country united in a single everlasting brotherhood, by no means back to be damaged or lease. Then shall treason disguise its accursed head within the airborne dirt and dust and our local Eagle shall rise—soaring excessive within the heavens, flap his wings for pleasure and undergo messages of freedom, peace, and solid will, from the Northern lakes to the Southern gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and all of the international locations of the earth shall do us honor and phone us 3 times blessed.”—Lt. James Cleaver

When Milann Daugherty came upon a field of yellowed letters within the backside drawer of an outdated cloth wardrobe, she came across not just that the letters have been all written via her great-great-uncle approximately 100 and fifty years prior yet that they have been a desirable first-hand account of the Civil battle as noticeable during the eyes of a tender soldier.

Written within the based variety standard of the mid-nineteenth century, James Cleaver’s letters exhibit his passionate dedication to the reason and his abiding religion. in addition they supply us clean perception into the way of life of a soldier within the Civil struggle and the politics of the day. At a time while information traveled slowly and sporadically, it really is extraordinary how a lot James grasped in regards to the mammoth picture—the army suggestions and the generals who sought to hold them out.

Over the process 3 years, Milann Daugherty painstakingly transcribed all of the letters, which had suffered from the passage of time, and undertook study to complicated on a lot of what James defined. Her annotations improve an already notable choice of letters that attest to the intense braveness of a normal soldier in the course of a serious time in our nation’s history.

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