Dear Beloved Wife: the Civil War Letters of Andrew Foster Davis, Co "I" of the 15th Indiana Infantry, to his wife, Sarah McKee Davis.

Andrew Davis of Liberty, Indiana, was among the first to volunteer to put down the rebellion by the Confederate State of America. As Union County Recorder he felt it was his civic duty to lead by example so he and about forty of his neighbors responded to President Lincoln's call to arms, leaving their jobs, families, and friends, and reporting for duty at Indianapolis to be mustered into the army in May of 1861. Over the next two and a half years Andrew wrote to his wife Sarah and daughter...