Major Sullivan Ballou's final letter to his wife Sarah before the Battle of Bull Run remains one of the most heartbreaking documents of the Civil War. Writing with the premonition he wouldn't survive, he promised "when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name." One week later, he was killed. Sarah never remarried and remained in mourning for the rest of her life. There is a poem inspired by Ballou's letter in my book The Nameless and Faceless of the Civil War. You
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Major Sullivan Ballou's final letter to his wife Sarah before the Battle of Bull Run remains one of the most heartbreaking documents of the Civil War. Writing with the premonition he wouldn't survive, he promised "when my last breath escapes me on the battlefield, it will whisper your name." One week later, he was killed. Sarah never remarried and remained in mourning for the rest of her life. There is a poem inspired by Ballou's letter in my book The Nameless and Faceless of the Civil War. You
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