Your Affectionate Son: Letters from a Civil War Soldier

"We pray Heaven she may have her reward in seeing rebellion soon crushed, the union restored, and every section, every State united in one eternal brotherhood, never again to be broken or rent. Then shall treason hide its accursed head in the dust and our native Eagle shall rise—soaring high in the heavens, flap his wings for joy and bear messages of freedom, peace, and good will, from the Northern lakes to the Southern gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and all the nations of the ...