America's Civil War

FROM THE HEART

Below is a touching pair of letters we received from a Georgia-based husband and wife regarding the feature article “Crossing the Rubicon,” which ran in our September 2021 issue (P. 30).

your magazine and read an article titled “Crossing the Rubicon” by Robert Lee Hodge. In it, Confederate Private Alexander Hunter picks up a love letter found on the body of a killed Union soldier after the Second Battle of Manassas. It reminded me of what I wrote in my book, (Indigo Custom Publishing, 2008). In

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