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Letters Home from the American Civil War

American Civil War Love & Loss

On July 14, 1861, Major Sullivan Ballou wrote to his wife Sarah from Camp Clark: "If I do not return, my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you." Seven days later he was shot at Bull Run. Roughly 750,000 soldiers died in the war his letter introduces. This is how Americans learned of it — through the letters, photographs, and cemeteries the war forced them to invent.