A CIVIL WAR SOLDIER'S EMOTIONAL LETTER TO HIS "DEAR WIFE"

"I should just not feel that I was making you unhappy....What can have come between us?"

This letter is painfully serious. The soldier is emotionally lost, he's far from home and he fears some distance, not just geographic distance, has occurred. He doesn't make a whole lot of sense. He implores his wife to write, to remember he loves her...and in all, shows the personal side of a soldier, which we often don't see in histories of any war.

When I was looking for war date documents, letters home, draft information and payments made for soldiers to enlist I stumbled upon this letter, which I suspect would generally be ignored by some collectors.

If you are deeply interested in the war and significant letters, this one doesn't mention Grant or Lincoln or the story of some important person. But "Dear Wife" is very meaningful and through the pages you can see what soldiers had to battle besides Confederate troops.

Unusual and interesting.