...This chapter presents Dick and Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to their family in South Carolina dated from October 1861 to March 1862. These letters are about their recovery from measles and their transfer to the winter quarters of the Confederate Army near the Old Manassas. Since...

...This chapter presents Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to his family in South Carolina dated from February to April 1863. These letters tell about Tally's return to the routine and inactivity of winter camp after the great snowball battles of January in which his brigade in particular had been...

...This chapter presents wartime letters from Tally Simpson's friends and officers addressed to his family in South Carolina dated from September to October 1863. These letters tell about the death of Tally in the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia, where the Confederate Army was defeated by the Union...

...This chapter presents Dick and Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to their family in South Carolina dated from August to October 1961. These letters cover the Confederate Army's victory at the Battle of Bull Run and the settling of the soldiers while waiting for the next battle. They also tell about...

...This chapter presents Griffin's wartime letters to his wife Leila in South Carolina dated from April 14 to September 17, 1861. These letters are about Griffin's arrival in Fort Sumter, his commissioning as major of cavalry in the Hampton Legion, his recruitment of volunteers in Columbia and his...

...This chapter presents Griffin's wartime letters to his wife Leila dated from April 12 to June 14, 1862. These letters are about the move of Griffin's troops to Yorktown and his engagements at the Battle of Eltham's Landing and at Seven Pines. Griffin also told Leila about the competition...

...This chapter presents Griffin's wartime letters to his wife Leila dated from November 26, 1862 to February 9, 1863. These letters are about Griffin's decision to accept the commission with the Reserves and go back to South Carolina. He told Leila that he was appointed lieutenant colonel...

...This chapter presents Dick and Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to their family in South Carolina from April to August 1861. These letters cover the period from the fall of Fort Sumter in April 1861 to the lull in the fighting following the Confederate victory at First Manassas. They are filled...

...This chapter presents Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to his family in South Carolina dated from September 1862 to January 1863. These letters were about the Third South Carolina's participation in the battles of Second Manassas, Maryland Heights and Sharpsburg. These battles were the hottest part...

...This chapter presents Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to his family in South Carolina dated from May to June 1863. These letters tell about the battle between the Union Army's Joe Hooker and the Confederate Army's Robert E. Lee during the Maryland Campaign. Tally also describes how Lafayette...

...This chapter presents Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to his family in South Carolina dated from July to September 1863. Tally's last letter was written from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania on June 28 as General Robert E. Lee's army began its invasion of the North. His next letter was on July 17...

...This chapter presents Griffin's wartime letters to his wife Leila and son Willie dated from January 2 to February 1862. There letters are about Griffin's brush with death after his arm was almost paralyzed, his troops guarding of the Potomac line and his cavalry's move to Dumfries to join the Texas...

...This chapter presents Griffin's wartime letters to his wife Leila dated from December 1, 1864 to February 27, 1865. These letters are about Griffin's first fear of invasion because while the Union forces threatened from without, the home front also had enemies from within which include Confederate...

...This chapter presents Dick and Tally Simpsonsʼ wartime letters to their family in South Carolina dated from April to August 1862. These letters contained nothing specific except that Tally made the decision to re-enlist. Dick, who was suffering from chronic dysentery, was not able to re-enlist...

...This chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the wartime letters sent by James B. Griffin to his family during the American Civil War. Griffin was a wealthy plantation owner in Edgefield, South Carolina when he volunteered for the Confederate Army in 1861. This book examines...

...This chapter presents Griffin's wartime letters to his wife Leila dated from February 27 to April 1862. These letters are about the Confederate forces' retreat from the Occoquan River to Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the establishment of a new line of defense on the Rappahannock River. Griffin also...