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 had come to embody the

had come to embody the Confederate cause

Throughout

Hanna provides excellent context on the politics of the era

It tends to overshadow many of the other interesting and important stories that have taken place in Gettysburg and the vicinity

deliberately crafting the image of a man of the people

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 had come to embody theby 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