‘You promised that you would come home’: Letters Between a Husband and Wife

The letters between Madison Bowler and his wife Lizzie reflect the strains imposed by the war on thousands of families. In the spring of 1864, as Northerners and Southerners braced themselves for the opening of the conflict’s third year, Lizzie Bowler confided to her husband the loneliness that had plagued her since he had joined …

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