Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All (James M. Scythes - DLM) July 2021 Using specimens from museums

Using specimens from museums

His resolve entirely changed the face of warfare

Throughout his twenty-three-year legal career

this "pyrrhic" victory prevented Forrest form being in Tennessee to cut the supply lines of Union General Sherman's army that captured and burned Atlanta on their "March to the Sea

Johnston’s army inflicted heavy losses on Sherman’s forces at the Battle of Bentonville in March 1865

Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All (James M. Scythes - DLM) July 2021 Using specimens from museumsby James M. Scythes During the American Civil War, soldiers frequently wrote letters to friends and family members as a way of maintaining their connections to loved ones at home. However, most of the published collections of Civil War letters contain correspondence between just two individuals. Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All contains a collection of letters exchanged between 16