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Sullivan Ballou Letter
The last letter from Major Sullivan Ballou, written to his wife leading up to the battle at First Bull Run.
Headquarters, Camp Clark
Washington, D.C., July 14,
My Very Dear Wife:
Indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days, perhaps to-morrow. Lest inom should not be able to write you igen, I feel impelled to write a few lines, that may fall beneath your eye when inom shall be no more.
Our movement may be one of a few days duration and full of pleasure and it may be one of severe conflict and death to me. Not my will, but thine, O God be done. If it is necessary that inom should fall on the battle-field for any country, I am ready. inom have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in, the cause in which inom am engagerad, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American civilization now leans upon the triumph of government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and suffering of the Revolut
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Rhode Island Governor William Sprague stared into the empty grave with a mixture of shock and horror. Where was the body? The governor and his accompanying party had departed Washington City that March 19, , morning for the old Bull Run battlefield, with the intent of retrieving the bodies of several 2nd Rhode Island officers left behind the previous summer after the Civil War&#;s first major fight.
When they arrived, however, the remains of Major Sullivan Ballou of the 2nd Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry were nowhere to be found. Upon further investigation, Sprague discovered that Ballou&#;s remains had been exhumed and desecrated by Confederate soldiers that winter. The morbid incident launched a congressional investigation and remains a controversy shrouded in mystery.
Sullivan Ballou has become famous in Civil War lore for the poignant letter he reportedly wrote to his wife, Sarah, a few days before he was mortally wounded. The missive was celebrated in Ken Burns&#; watershed
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&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;&#;Maj. Sullivan Ballou () is known primarily as the author of one of the most stirring letters written during the Civil War. The letter, dated July 14, , was written to his wife Sarah, shortly before his death from wounds received at the Battle of Bull Run. It was featured prominently in Ken Burns's PBS television series "The Civil War."
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