Forget-me-nots of the Civil War - a romance, containing reminiscences and original letters of two Confederate soldiers (1909) (14760395114)

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Title: Forget-me-nots of the Civil War : a romance, containing reminiscences and original letters of two Confederate soldiers
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Battle, Laura Elizabeth Lee
Subjects: Battle, Laura Elizabeth Lee Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 4th. Company F Women
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Press A. R. Fleming Printing Co.
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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een about ten months, without losinga man in battle. If he was in that company, he wouldsee a much easier time than he would in Infantry,being small, he would be very apt to be made a driverand in time of fights hold the horses in the rear, orin some place where they can be sheltered. What timewill he be seventeen? Write to me as soon as you re-ceive this, and let me know what he thinks about it.In the meantime, I will go over to Manleys Batteryand see if I can get him in. I fear that it will be full,as I know a good many young men who joined oncoming seventeen. It is a very good company andcomposed of a great many very nice men. I knewsome of them before the war. I am intimately ac-quainted with all of the officers. Baz. Manley is Capt.Bunny Guion, James Powell and James McKimmon,the Lieutenant, all from Raleigh. Tell Cullen to takemy advice and never join this Regiment as long ashe can avoid it. However much I would like to havehim with me. I am giving him this advice for his I .- /
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Walter. LETTERS FROM GEORGE AND WAI/TER. 133 own good. Please think about the matter and writeme immediately. Give my love to all the family.Where is sister ? Is she at Wilson ? I will write againin a few days, probably before I hear from you. TellCullen to write when you do. Goodbye. Your affectionate son, Walter. Alas, these letters are all that is left of the two noblesons and brothers, for George was killed at the battleof Seven Pines while Walter died from exposureafter that terrible battle he so vividly describes in oneof his letters. Requiescat in pace to all who fell inthose days in that cruel war. All quiet along the Potomac, they say, Except now and then a stray picketIs shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket;Tis nothing, a private or two, now and then, Will not count in the news of the battle,Not as officers lostâonly one of the men Moaning out, all alone the death rattle. âEthel Lynn Beers. What are we set on earth for? Say, to toilâ