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…Such Things?"

"While researching some soldier accounts of the battle of Port Republic last June, I found the collection of John V. Hadley's letters, published in the Indiana Magazine of History in 1963. I typically read some of the letters beyond the battle I'm researching to get a sense of how the soldier wrote, and this collection…well, I read it all in one evening. It's that good!

Hadley wrote the majority of his letters to Miss Mary Hill, a young woman who became his fiancee and, after the war, his wife. Though her letters are missing from the collection, his one-sided letters offer a lot of insight into their relationship and compare favorably with other similar northern collections…"

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Armand

Very interesting. Thanks.

There was a written study done by Union medical personnel after the war which was very well illustrated, showing the different types of wounds inflicted by various weapons and the resulting surgeries that were necessary.

I looked through a copy in a museum in Boston in the summer of 1991 after I returned from the First Gulf War.

Glad you enjoyed it…

Thanks Kevin…

Armand