print email comment close "My Precious Loulie...": Love Letters of the Civil War URL: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/cwlove/ Description: These love letters from Civil War soldiers "show their sorrows of being apart, fears that the soldier would not return home, and hopes for the future after the war's end." In addition, "some of the letters are comical, as is the letter from an unknown soldier to a woman who evidently answered his 'lonely-hearts' advertisement." Includes images and transcriptions of this small collection of letters. From the University Libraries of Virginia Tech. Publisher: University Libraries of Virginia Tech Library of Congress Subject Headings: Love-letters United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives LII Database Information: Record 20508 created by Maria Brandt on 01/30/2006 Last modification on 01/31/2006 Published: 02/02/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20508