A Massachusetts woman and Hokie whose ancestors founded Radford has donated more than 1,200 Civil War-era letter and ...

As a rule, Civil War soldiers were more religious than Americans ... now known as St. Elizabeths, are filled with letters to the superintendent, like this one from a shopkeeper in Pennsylvania.

Plus, thousands of Civil War recruits were young ... Soldier,” a compilation of one of the few caches of letters from a female soldier. That soldier, Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, left home and ...