A Confederate Soldier Writes Home

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Confederate Pvt. Edwin Francis Jemison, 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division; Wikimedia Commons.

When one of those letters was published by the writer’s home paper, the emotional response went beyond the soldier’s family to the greater community – Macon, Georgia, in the following example. This letter, simply titled “A Soldier’s Letter” in the newspaper, was written on this day 154 years ago – on 24 March 1862.

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