Three Letters: The Search for Private L. A. Fagg

By: Sullivan, Marilyn Barnes

A daughter of the Old South sets out to find the writers of three letters written in the spring of 1863. Armed with a dedication to primary research, a vivid imagination, and an old red Subaru she journeys into the thick of the American Civil War from Bridgeport, Alabama to frigid Fort Donelson in northwest Tennessee, on to the sultry swamps of Port Hudson, Louisiana, and finally to a place known only as "near big black."

Along the way she confronts the Southern history she learned growing up - both the lessons taught in school and those unsaid - and rediscovers the alarmingly familiar rhetoric that started the war, the grim realities faced by the people who fought the war, and the stunning reason for a long-held family silence - a reason she never could have imagined.

Part well-documented history, part travelogue, and part "You Were There," this memoir celebrates and grieves the poor, semi-literate, ordinary people who lived our history - the kind of people history forgets.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B1S58KYP
• ISBN13: 9798447974657
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"