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[2]: 37 Wakeman's letters were subsequently edited and published by Lauren Burgess in 1994 as An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862–1864. [1] Her relatives still have the letters, a photograph, and a ring of Wakeman's. [2]: 50
The Bixby letter in the Boston Evening Transcript. The Bixby letter is a brief, consoling message sent by President Abraham Lincoln in November 1864 to Lydia Parker Bixby, a widow living in Boston, Massachusetts, who was thought to have lost five sons in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...
Letters from Robert Allen, Company A, 13th Ohio – According to the description at the Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery: "Eleven letters written during the Civil War by Union soldier Robert Allen to his family in Massillon, Ohio, and an additional letter (April 4, 1862) by his brother A. Allen. The letters give details of various ...
The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1997 and covers the lives and ideals of American Civil War soldiers from both sides of the war. Drawing from a compilation of over 25,000 letters and 250 personal diaries, For Cause and Comrades tells the story of the American Civil War's soldiers through their own writings, emphasizing their ...
Losses were far higher than during the war with Mexico, which saw roughly 13,000 American deaths, including fewer than two thousand killed in battle, between 1846 and 1848. One reason for the high number of battle deaths in the civil war was the continued use of tactics similar to those of the Napoleonic Wars, such as charging.
Three hundred love letters written during WWII were discovered in a trunk and tell the story of ... The secret romance between a World War II soldier and his male sweetheart emerged more than 70 ...
The Military Telegraph During the Civil War in the United States, an Exposition of ancient and Modern Means of Communications, and of the Federal and Confederate Cipher Systems, Also a Running Account of the War between the States, two volumes. Chicago: Jensen, McClug & Company, Publishers, 1882.