Words from a Union soldier

‘It is no pleasant thought to contemplate death in such heartrending forms. We try to shake off the conviction by various ways. But the pale cheek tells the thoughts of the mind, and the quivering lip speak plainer than words.’

When Marcia Pollock Wysocky, a historian and author from Winneconne, Wisc. was given 13 handwritten letters by her mother's neighbor, Gayle Baylor of Friendship, Wisc., she was quick to notify the …

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