Blue and Gray: The War Through Soldiers’ Letters

Few ways of exploring the Civil War yield greater satisfaction than reading letters written by soldiers. The conflict produced a staggering volume of correspondence. In the single month of April 1863, for example, the 60th New York Infantry—which mustered fewer than 400 men—mailed 3,855 letters. The U.S. Army counted roughly 700,000 men present for duty …

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