A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie

About this film

LibriVox recording of A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie by Joseph Benjamin Polley. Read in English by Dale Latham; asterix; Denise Nordell Whether written in camp, in hospital, or in hospitable home, the letters tell a plain, unvarnished, and true story of the observations and experiences, the impressions and feelings, of a soldier whose only personal regret is that he could not be one of those whose paroles at Appomattox are patents incontestable that they fought for the right as they saw it, as long as there was a hope to encourage them. Though not intended as history, they are historical in the respect that they narrate actual occurrences in camp, on the march, and in the battle. The lady to whom all but the last were addressed was no more a myth from 1861 to 1865 than now, when, a gray-haired wife, mother, and grandmother, she presides with the grace and dignity of the truest womanhood over the home made for her by the gallant officer of the Tennessee Army, her first and only beloved, whom she wedded shortly after the close of the war. To her soldier correspondent she was the friend of one more than a friend. It was not until March of 1865 that they ever met. Her letters k…

Directors & creators

Joseph Benjamin Polley

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;history; letters; civil war; battle; Virginia; confederate army; texas brigade; hood's texans; polley; nellie; confederate soldier; manassas

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