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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 ...
The Heart of a Soldier, As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Gen'l George E. Pickett, C.S.A. (1913) Across My Path: Memories of People I Have Known (1916) What Happened to Me … (1917) Soldier of the South: General Pickett's War Letters to His Wife (edited by Arthur Crew Inman, 1928) [2]
In an 1856 letter to his wife, he maintained that slavery was a great evil, ... Former Confederate soldier George Washington Cable described it in a tribute: ...
With Clarke dictating, the minister wrote four letters for him: to Clarke's aunt, his cousin, a young lady named Elizabeth Lashbrook- his brother John Thomas Clarke's wife, and to his fiancée. [5] Clarke's last requests were for his body to be sent to his aunt and stepmother in Franklin to be buried in his Confederate uniform, next to his parents.
Samuel Henry Starr (July 31, 1810 – November 23, 1891) was a career United States Army officer, regimental commander and prisoner of war.A collection of his letters provide a rare view of military life, the War with Mexico, Indian conflicts, the Civil War, his fall from grace, recovery and post Civil War service.
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 ...
Maudie White Hopkins (née Maudie Cecelia Acklin; December 7, 1914 – August 17, 2008) is believed to have been the oldest surviving widow of a Confederate soldier. At the time of her death, she was the oldest publicly known Civil War widow, although others were believed to be alive but unidentified.
Another relative, Lucius Q.C. Lamar, became the first former Confederate to join the US Senate in 1877. Then-President Grover Cleveland named Lamar to be Secretary of the Interior in 1885 and then ...