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  2. Sullivan Ballou - Wikipedia

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    Sullivan Ballou (March 28, 1829 – July 29, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered for an eloquent letter he wrote to his wife Sarah a week before he was mortally wounded in the First Battle of Bull Run. He was left behind by retreating ...

  3. Quentin C. Aanenson - Wikipedia

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    At the conclusion of Episode Five of the series, Aanenson narrated a poignant and ominous letter he had written to his future wife but had never sent, considered by some critics to be of similar style to the Sullivan Ballou letter in Burns' The Civil War. Written December 5, 1944, the letter reads: [2] [4] Dear Jackie, For the past two hours, I ...

  4. The Civil War (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    Following the series, there was a sharp upturn in popular books and other works about the Civil War. [16] Robert Brent Toplin in 1996 wrote Ken Burns's The Civil War: Historians Respond, which included essays from critical academic historians who felt their topics of interest were not covered in enough detail and responses from Ken Burns and ...

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  6. 300 love letters discovered between two gay men during WWII ...

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    The 300-letter collection detailed the love between soldier Gilbert Bradley and his lover -- who signed the letters with the initial "G". Decades later it was discovered that his pen pal's name ...

  7. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (film) - Wikipedia

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    An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (French: La Rivière du hibou, lit. 'The Owl River') is a 1961 French short film, almost without dialogue.It was based on the 1890 American short story of the same name by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce.

  8. Love Letters (1945 film) - Wikipedia

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    Love Letters is the second of four films that featured both Jones and Cotten in leading roles. The others are Since You Went Away (1944), Duel in the Sun (1946), and Portrait of Jennie (1948). Hal Wallis had to borrow the services of Jones and Cotten from David O. Selznick who had both actors under personal contract (along with director William ...

  9. Michael Che tricks Colin Jost into cracking joke about wife ...

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