The Refreshingly Honest James Benton on Death, Disease and Life
Civil War letters are the ultimate first draft of the conflict’s history. These intimate writings, packed with news and rumor from the front lines and a longing for home and
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A Georgia Boy’s Southern Exposure
Some of the finest writing produced during the Civil War derives from the diaries of those who lived it. Witness the vivid prose of South Carolina’s Mary Boykin Chesnut, the