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...for we shall meet again.
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love is endless & endures all things...even death tight squeezes Ex til we meet!
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Lovely❤️❤️❤️.... but Sad😥
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wow. what a letter!!!
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nothing short of beautiful, a good man knowing he was about to meet his destiny, a man in need of declaring his honest feelings .. great indeed. his only comfort .. we shall meet again
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It was such a gut-wrenching, beautiful letter. It declared his true love, for his one and only. Knowing his fate was sealed. Thank you, Ex. For sharing such a masterpiece. xx "Men need to hunt. She obviously understands this. She’s offering herself as prey. Not easy prey. But willing.”
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Very sad. It is fortunate this letter was able to be delivered.
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beautiful words...
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Such a poignant reading! The Major was a man of courage and love of his country and family. Thank you for posting this, Ex.
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Rhank you for sharing this bit of American and human hisory. "One Big Sky Covers Us All Equally"
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9/11/2023 3:17 pm |
The ELOQUENCE with which they wrote back then is STAGGERING compared to what one reads today (personal opinion, of course), but, then, Major Sullivan was a well educated Lawyer and Politician (elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 1854)before entering the Union Army in 1861 after the bombardment of Fort Sumpter. He was hit by a six pounder cannonball that tore off part of his right leg and killed his horse, and evacuated from the Bull Run Battlefield (or the First Battle of Manassas) to Sudley Church, a 'makeshift Hospital' for the Union Army's wounded. There, the remainder of his leg was amputated, but upon the defeat of the Union Army in the battle, the Union Army fled the area, leaving Sullivan and other wounded soldiers there at the church, where he died from his wounds a week later and was buried in the Church's Cemetery. Confederate Forces that occupied the area exhumes Major Ballou's body and decapitated and burned by the Rebel troops, and his body was never recovered. Some charred ash and bone from Sudley, in place of his body, n place of his body. He was 32 at the time of his death; his wife Sarah was 24, and Sarah Ballou never remarried. She later moved to New Jersey to live with her son, William. She died aged 82 in 1917; she is buried next to her husband. His expressions of the emotions he was feeling at the time he wrote the letter, worry, fear, guilt, and sadness, combined with his undying love for his wife and his two sons, while DETERMINED to fulfill his sense of duty to his nation, is INDEED, gut wrenching! hen I read these types of letters, it hearkens back to times in my own life where American service people have lost their lives in BATTLES in WARS around the Globe and the letters that they wrote to their loved ones while contemplating their own demise prior to whatever they were about to face...
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@BillywildMartin - thank you for a great comment, it really puts the letter into context. @ExNameForUse - your blog, and consequently you, expose such distinct qualities, thank you for showing us what being human is all about
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I knew you would be touched when you read Major Ballou's letter. I've been awestruck by his words since the first time I read it. I am very glad you posted it for others to read. As you can see by the comments, it's seemingly impossible to read without being deeply touched. And now you will forever carry with you a small piece of the two of us, as you shall never forget this truly amazing letter. I like that thought.  Make Women Female Again
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A wonderful letter of love..
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9/12/2023 2:41 pm |
"Thank you very much for this addition to this blog... very informative and helped us all to have a bigger picture... very kind of you." Double majored in College, Economics and History, and had a TERRIFIC History teacher at the College I attended in North Carolina that was very adept at drawing his students into the depths of the courses he taught. Always prepared for his classes, he was loaded for bear with trivialities of the subject matter for the courses he engaged in teaching, He 'introduced' us (my classmates and  my sophomore year in College to "The Bixby Letter" (later made famous in the movie "Saving Private Ryan" that reads:"Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. Dear Madam, I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, A. Lincoln. Mrs. Bixby. These types of 'revealed correspondence' bring a human aspect to the inhumanity of WAR that is lost in most history books, biographies, movies, and the like...E. Kidd made you THINK and dig deeper for those trivialities that provided that "human aspect"! And tell me that Lincoln's letter doesn't also flow with similar ELOQUENCE as Major Sullivan Ballou's... glad you enjoyed the 'footnotes'!
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