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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 ...
Paul Roebling (March 1, 1934 – July 27, 1994) was an American actor noted for Blue Thunder, Prince of the City and Carolina Skeletons.In the 1990 Ken Burns PBS documentary The Civil War, [1] Roebling was the voice of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and read the famous letter written by Sullivan Ballou.
Printable version; In other projects ... A 'letter' is a formal, printed (handwritten or typed) message from one person to another. ... Sullivan Ballou's letter to ...
"Ashokan Farewell" / ə ˈ ʃ oʊ ˌ k æ n / is a musical piece composed by the American folk musician Jay Ungar in 1982. For many years, it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps, run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who named the tune after the Ashokan Field Campus (now the Ashokan Center) of SUNY New Paltz in Upstate New York.
It has been expressed by a fair number of historians that the letter was actually never written by Ballou at all, and that Governor Sprague was the true author; possibly as an attempt to console Mrs. Ballou (or possibly in collusion with her) and/or at the same time use it as a way to encourage his State to commit fully to the then new war ...
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On that sanguinary and disastrous field, it was the first, with Captain Reynolds' battery, to engage, and fought the enemy forty-five minutes without support, losing 28 men killed, 56 wounded, and 30 missing; among the former, Colonel Slocum, Major Sullivan Ballou, and Captains Levi A. Tower and Samuel J. Smith.
Several officials in Lincoln County, Oregon have received an anonymous letter urging people to report "brown folks" they suspect are undocumented immigrants, according to the Lincoln County ...