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Civil War Letters of Sidney Harrison Lee: The Correspondence of a Union Soldier 1864 - 1865

Civil War Letters of Sidney Harrison Lee: The Correspondence of a Union Soldier 1864 - 1865

Paperback

Civil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 1981444599
ISBN13: 9781981444595
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 21 2018
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sidney Harrison Lee was born on June 24, 1825 in Arlington, Indiana. He enlisted in the Union Army in January 1864 and served in Company E, 17th Infantry Regiment Indiana under General James H. Wilson during Wilson's Raid, the last organized campaign of the Civil War. The letters he wrote to his wife Ann Eliza chronicle spring campaigns through Alabama and Georgia in 1864 and 1865. Lee was a blacksmith and farmer; his letters include extensive detail on crops, farms, and the communities through which he passed. There is solgering of course; as an expert horseman, Lee served primarily as a scout and skirmisher during the campaigns. Although he came to love the South, his experiences are reflected in a growing indignation with the condition of poor and enslaved people he encountered. Lee moved his family to Alabama after the war, where he was a successful and honored community leader before his life was tragically ended.

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