From the Heart: Love Stories and Letters from the Civil War

Eloquently written letters were part of Victorian era courtship, and continued even after a couple's marriage.

Today, no form of communication is more important, more romantic—and more in danger of being lost—than the written word. Text-messaging has unfortunately taken over as the number one way to communicate, but that doesn't mean we can't learn something from the beautiful and elegant writings of the past.

Letters written during the Civil War often contained accounts of battles, life in c...