"Far, Far From Home": The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers

By Dick and Tally Simpson.

"Far, Far From Home": The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers

Description

In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home--published here for the first time--read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy. In their last year of college when the war broke out, Dick and Tally were hastily handed their diplomas so they could volunteer for military duty. Dick was twenty; Tally was twenty-two. Well educated, intelligent, and thoughtful young men, Dick and Tally cared deeply f...

ISBN(s)

0195086643, 9780195086645

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