Today’s posts:
Lincoln letter to parents of Late Col. Ellsworth, reply #3
John G. Nicolay, #4
Mary B. Chesnut, #5
George Templeton Strong, #6
George B. McClellan, #7
Sam R. Watkins, #8
Links to 6 items from Civil War Notebook, #9
New York journalists view Southerners as ignorant, violent barbarians to be chastised. Some things never change...