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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.
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 ...
A man's viral honest letter to his wife on why he couldn't be a husband is sending the Internet into a frenzy Fred first opened the letter by saying, “You mean the world to me. However I owe it ...
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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,
Amy Carter read a love letter written 75 years ago by her father, Jimmy Carter, to his wife, the late Rosalynn Carter, during Rosalynn's tribute service on Nov. 28.. During the service, held at ...