Dear Delia: the Civil War letters of Captain Henry F. Young, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry

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"Old Abe looks first rate, and is not a homely man by any means"

"I came to war to fight for the government"

"we are... broken, defeated, and out generald at every move"

"I am not A McClellan man, A Burnside man, a Hooker man. I am for the man that leads us to fight the Rebs"

"We have had three days terrible fighting"

"but the flag is the most costly and beutiful i ever seen"

"we will conquer and destroy the Reb Army"

"My dear little woman I am so unfortunate as to fall my last thoughts will be of you and the dear ones"

"This morning I received the sad news of the loss of our darling child"

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