Description
Some 125,000 Georgians fought in the Civil War. This book, containing nearly 300 letters and many drawings, prints and photographs, tells the personal story of these men and also chronicles the history of the Civil War in dramatic, intimate detail. The soldiers tell why they volunteered to risk their lives, what it was like to face death in battle. They express the aspirations, pride, patriotism, fear and despair of a newborn, stillborn country. The letters have been selected from several thousand documents at seven major libraries in the South, most notably the Georgia State Archives at Atlanta.
Dear Mother: Don’t Grieve About Me. If I Get Killed, I’ll Only Be Dead., Dear Mother, letters, Civil War, soldiers, Rebels, Yankees, Georgia, Mills Lane, drawings, prints, photographs, Georgia history, Southern history, American history, military history, America, American Civil War, Georgia State Archives, Georgia soldiers, Georgia Historical Society, Georgia volunteers, Fort Pulaski, secession, war, The South, military life, combat, recruits, Confederate, Confederacy, Union, Union army, Confederate army, battlefield, North, South, War Between the States, warfare, Confederate troops, prisoner-of-war, defeat, victory, surrender, Savannah, Atlanta, Arthur Lumley, Currier and Ives, William Waud, Frank Vizetelly, Richmond, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, Robert E. Lee, General Robert E. Lee, Virginia, A.R. Waud
