Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All (James M. Scythes - DLM) Section-Gettysburg Battlefield Guides deliberately crafting the image of

deliberately crafting the image of a man of the people

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“After five decades of magisterial output

had come to embody the Confederate cause

Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All (James M. Scythes - DLM) Section-Gettysburg Battlefield Guides deliberately crafting the image ofby James M. Scythes During the American Civil War, soldiers frequently wrote letters to friends and family members as a way of maintaining their connections to loved ones at home. However, most of the published collections of Civil War letters contain correspondence between just two individuals. Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All contains a collection of letters exchanged between 16