My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor

An epistolary chronicle of love and reflection from the Civil War front

More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, West Point engineer and Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe (1832–1895) remains one of the Union’s most unsung heroes. He served the Union in uniform from day one of the conflict until the Confederate surrender in North Carolina in late April 1865, and he used his unparalleled ability to predict Confederate movements to lead multiple successful campaigns that turne...