[elcid1970]

Just what is it about the American Civil War that leaps up into our face as though it is grimly recent? Is it the diary entries and letters like these? It’s never very far away.

[Age of Reason]

You sure this letter is authentic?

[Gondring]

Lt. Wheeler got the action he desired about 7 months later, while commanding the 13th NY Light Arty at Gettysburg. There are two markers commemorating his unit's locatio on that first day.

Four of my ancestors served and fought with him north of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863--and only one of them made it unscathed through the day.

I wonder if he was still wondering about a "good, honorable death" by 1864, when he was shot through the heart in Georgia. I doubt it...by then, I bet he was getting plenty of action and figuring the war was going to end soon enough.

What a horrible chapter of our nation's history... a federal government calling upon states to muster and invade their brother states, a union torn apart, and such misery and death throughout it all, instead of the brightness of the Season.

[kalee]

RIP
James P.Wilson,
CSA
48th Regiment, Virginia Infantry
KIA Chancellorsville May 3 1863

Buried Confederate Cemetary, Fredericksburg, VA

[BuffaloJack]

My family gave thirteen sons to the Southern Cause. Every male member of the family over the age of thirteen (my great grandfather was 7 at the start of the war). The last one died seven days before the end of the war in Elmira (NY) prison as a POW.

[DollyCali]

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