For love & liberty
Subtitle: the untold Civil War story of Major Sullivan Ballou & his famous love letter
By: Robin Young
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 830
ISBN-13: 9781560257240
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. Army. Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1865); United States; Soldiers; Regimental histories; Biography; History
Other titles: For love and liberty
Description: "In the fall of 1990, the Civil War recaptured our imagination by way of an ambitious nine-episode film that appeared on public television. Today, the millions of Americans who tuned in probably only remember one moment from it: "The Letter." Read as the music soared at the end of the first episode, the letter from unsung Rhode Island soldier Sullivan Ballou to his wife on the eve of battle - and likely death - brought a nation of viewers to tears for its eloquence and passion."

"This is Ballou's story. At the age of thirty-four, less than ten years after meeting the love of his life, Sarah Shumway, Ballou left his law practice and budding political career, his wife and two young sons, and took a commission as a major in the Union Army. He served in the army for almost two months but was struck down at the First Battle of Manassas/Bull Run." "For Love & Liberty brings the war to life with startling detail, depicting not only the heroism of its soldiers, but also the courage of the families they left behind."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 819-822) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: Conventions Used in the Book -- xi; title: Introduction: "Go Tell My Wife Not to Grieve" -- xxi -- Chapter 1; title: "Where the River Runs Like Silver" -- 1 -- Chapter 2; title: "Whose Sons Are Foremost in Duty" -- 21 -- Chapter 3; title: "Whose Daughters Are Peerless and Bright" -- 41 -- Chapter 4; title: "Joy Was in His Mild Blue Eyes" -- 59 -- Chapter 5; title: "Our Lovings Prospered Well" -- 83 -- Chapter 6; title: "We Live in Hard and Stirring Times" -- 105 -- Chapter 7; title: "Our Cause Is Just and Holy" -- 135 -- Chapter 8; title: "The President Called on the Land for an Army" -- 177 -- Chapter 9; title: "I'm Off to the War with the Good Men and True, and Hadn't You Better Come Along, Too?" -- 209 -- Chapter 10; title: "Then to the South We Bore Away" -- 229 -- Chapter 11; title: "From Hill to Hill, from Creek to Creek, Potomac Calls to Chesapeake" -- 271 -- Chapter 12; title: "In the Watch Fires of a Hundred Circling Camps" -- 297 -- Chapter 13; title: "Rally Round the Flag Boys" -- 335 -- Chapter 14; title: "The Most Glorious Scene" -- 379 -- Chapter 15; title: "How Many Miles to the Junction?" -- 423 -- Chapter 16; title: "A Cannonball Don't Pay No Mind" -- 461 -- Chapter 17; title: "The Murdering Cannons Roar" -- 509 -- Chapter 18; title: "Yankee Doodle Wheeled About and Scampered Off at Full Run, and Such a Race Was Never Seen as that He Made at Bull Run" -- 553 -- Chapter 19; title: "Weeping Sad and Lonely" -- 585 -- Chapter 20; title: "Life's Tide Is Ebbing Out So Fast" -- 609 -- Chapter 21; title: "And Our Hopes in Ruin Lie" -- 633 -- Chapter 22; title: "Though We Live in Winter Quarters Now, We're but Waiting for the Hour" -- 655 -- Chapter 23; title: "With Tender Care" -- 675 -- Chapter 24; title: "Wreaths of Glory" -- 701 -- Chapter 25; title: "The Eagle of Freedom Shrieks" -- 723 -- Chapter 26; title: "We Shall Win the Day"-- 741.