Between Home and the Front: Civil War Letters of the Walters Family (Lynn Heidelbaugh, Thomas J. Paone - DLM) brooch Reconstruction

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their lives

and use numbers growing up alongside the master’s son

becoming a national hero in her own right

Between Home and the Front: Civil War Letters of the Walters Family (Lynn Heidelbaugh, Thomas J. Paone - DLM) brooch ReconstructionEdited by Lynn Heidelbaugh and Thomas Paone by Smithsonian National Postal Museum The personal letters of Americans during the Civil War preserve first person records of news, people, and emotions that humanize the horrific events of the war and provide unique insights into the conflict's effects on individuals, families, communities, and America. Often, however, only the letters sent home survived, leaving half of the story missing. Between Home and