The following is a transcription of a letter from Lee Hendrix, a private in the 1st North Carolina Sharpshooters during the Civil War. Poetry of a different sort.
Source: Virginia Tech, Universities Libraries, Special Collections
Saturday, January 15, 2011
The Promised Land
The following is a transcription of a letter from Lee Hendrix, a private in the 1st North Carolina Sharpshooters during the Civil War. Poetry of a different sort.
Source: Virginia Tech, Universities Libraries, Special Collections
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This delightful note tells us what we (men) already knew. We are ever thoughtful even in extreme adversity!
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Indeed. Despite the popular conception of the chaste, "marble man" Civil War soldier, every now and then a letter or court martial record slips through the cracks, reminding us that men of that era really were--to misappropriate a line from Bruce Catton--"flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone."
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