What would a soldier write to his loved ones back home? What if that soldier was a Yankee fighting in the Civil War? And what if he never returned?
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This true story of endurance and loss during the American Civil War opens with David Brainard Griffin’s farewell to his family, as he heads off to fight, promising to return to his farm in Minnesota. But Brainard never returns. His wife and their children, ages 7 years, 5 years, and 9 months, are left behind to run the farm on their own.
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These letters were Griffin’s last mementos his family had to remember him by were preserved and handed down over the past 150 years. Adams presents further generations a wonderful legacy that will keep these letters alive forever.
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After retiring from a career in elementary education the author continues to speak at schools, libraries, service clubs, and Civil War Round Tables. Adams is also an avid Civil War re-enactor celebrating his great- great grandfather who wrote these letters as he fought to preserve the Union. Author website: www.Civil-War-Letters.com