Major Soule: A Memorial of Major Alfred B. Soule, 23rd Regiment, Maine Volunteers

Like the majority of the soldiers in the American Civil War, Major Alfred Soule died of disease. Though he saw action in the war, he was able to return home before his death and passed there with his wife of fifteen years, and his children and friends.

A man of deep Christian faith, Soule nevertheless struggled greatly with whether to enlist and later, whether it had been the right decision. Even as he lay ill, expecting to return to service, he asked his wife:

"Carrie you do not think I have...