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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 ...
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 ...
This now-iconic image of the family of Sgt. Samuel Smith, an African-American soldier wearing an Abraham Lincoln campaign pin, is a featured photo on Wikimedia Commons and was donated to the Library of Congress as part of the Liljenquist Collection Unidentified soldier in Virginia Volunteer uniform and secession badge This image of A. M. Chandler and Silas Chandler was purchased from Chandler ...
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 ...
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 ...
Set in the Reconstruction era following the American Civil War, the film depicts a farmer returning home from the war, with his wife beginning to suspect that the man is an impostor while also falling in love with him. Sommersby was released in the United States on February 5, 1993 by Warner Bros.
After the Civil War, he devoted most of his time to literature. [39] His writings show a deep love of nature, art and humanity. In his Common Sense About Women (1881) and his Women and Men (1888), he advocated equality of opportunity and equality of rights for men and women. [3] In 1874, Higginson was elected a member of the American ...
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