Some 19th prose is just beautiful.
Like Major Sullivan Ballou's "Dear Sarah" letter.
I have to admit, the writing in this magazine is very hard to follow. Not only is it filled with passive voice, run on sentences on top of run ons, but it is also very disjointed.
It must have been the style back then.
I recall that letter from the Ken Burns series. It may have been Garrison Kiellor who read it. I guess the writer would have been considered too efficient with words to be a Harper’s correspondent.