News from Home, 1862–1865. A soldier reading his letter from home. A Place of Reading. Three centuri
News from Home, 1862–1865. A soldier reading his letter from home. A Place of Reading. Three centuries of Reading in America. 2010. American Antiquarian Society.From the Civil War, thousands of letters from home and letters from the soldiers’ own hands survive, attesting to a great many things, but certainly to the citizens of a literate nation reaching out to one another through words when words were all they had. -- source link
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