"My Very Dear Wife" - The Last Letter of Major Sullivan Ballou
2015年2月3日 · With the movement of the federal forces into Virginia imminent, Sullivan Ballou penned this letter to his wife. His concern that he "should fall on the battle-field" proved all too true.
Sullivan Ballou - Wikipedia
Sullivan Ballou (March 28, 1829 – July 29, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered for an eloquent letter he wrote to his wife Sarah a week before he was mortally wounded in the First Battle of Bull Run .
Sullivan Ballou Letter | The Civil War | Ken Burns - PBS
Sullivan Ballou was killed a week later at the First Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.
Sullivan Ballou Letter - American Battlefield Trust
The last letter from Major Sullivan Ballou, written to his wife leading up to the battle at First Bull Run. Headquarters, Camp Clark Washington, D.C., July 14, 1861. My Very Dear Wife: Indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days, perhaps to-morrow.
The Civil War Love Letter of Sullivan Ballou
2014年2月9日 · On July 14, 1861, Union Army Maj. Sullivan Ballou sat down in Washington, D.C., to write a love letter to his wife of six years. It was his last.
"Not my will, but thine, O God be done." If it is necessary that I should fall on the battle field for my Country, I am ready. I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter.
Letter from Captain Sullivan Ballou to His Wife Sarah
2010年10月24日 · Sarah, I have unlimited confidence in your maternal care and your development of their characters. Tell my two mothers his and hers I call God's blessing upon them. O Sarah, I wait for you there! Come to me, and lead thither my children. Sullivan. Return to the top of the page.
When Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers following the fall of Fort Sumter, 32 year old Sullivan Ballou quickly joined a unit of Rhode Island volunteers and headed off to Virginia to preserve the Union. He wrote this letter to his wife Sarah before being ordered to Manassas, where he would die fighting on Matthews Hill. Headquarters, Camp Clark
‘O Sarah!’ Did Sullivan Ballou’s Famed Letter Come ... - HistoryNet
2017年8月15日 · First heard on a wide scale during Ken Burns’ The Civil War documentary on September 23, 1990, a letter presented as the final missive by Major Sullivan Ballou of the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry has over the years been read repeatedly and published in many accounts as the finest expression of why Northern soldiers went to war to preserve the Union.
Major Sullivan Ballou and the Letter to His Wife Sarah
2017年12月15日 · On July 14th, 1861, Major Sullivan Ballou wrote a letter to his wife Sarah at home in Rhode Island one week before he fought and died in the First Battle of Bull Run. Sullivan Ballou was born to Hiram and Emeline Ballou, a distinguished Huguenot …
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