Weep Not for Me, Dear Mother (Large PB)
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ACCELERATED READER PROGRAM SELECTION CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL NOTABLE CHILDREN'S TRADE BOOK IN THE FIELD OF SOCIAL STUDIES FOR 1997 "Ms. Roberson brings to life Eli Landers and his family in this truly outstanding book." -Civil War Courier "I expect to be a man of honor to our country at the risk to my life." -Pvt. Eli Pinson Landers, letter dated September 24, 1863, camp near Chattanooga, TN When her neighbor handed her a stack of yellowed letters that had been rescued from an Atlanta, Georgia, trash pile, author Elizabeth Whitley Roberson had no idea she was about to embark on a fact-finding mission through six states, from Civil War battlegrounds in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to Gwinnett County in North Georgia. The author of these letters was a young man named Eli Pinson Landers, a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Weep Not For Me, Dear Mother is a collection of the letters this brave young man diligently wrote to his mother, Susan Landers, back in their home of Yellow River, Georgia. The book traces his life in battles at Gettysburg, Manassas, and Chickamauga, among others.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1565541863
ISBN13:9781565541863
Release Date:February 1996
Publisher:Pelican Publishing Company
Length:168 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 8.6" x 11.0"
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A Treasure Literally Saved From the Trashbin
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Driving down an alley a stack of letters was spotted tied up with ribbons and sitting on the trashcan awaiting what would have been a tragic fate. Those letters were retrieved, discovered to be the correspondence of a Gwinnet Co. Georgia teenager to his mother during the War Between the States. Here they have been reprinted with all the unvarnished charm of a 19th century American soldier caught up in an epic struggle. To put an exclaimation point on this unlikely story a photo was later discovered which proved to be our young hero. Alternatively playful, funny, melancholy and patriotic the collection suddenly ends. Like 620,000 others he never returned. While in print for sometime this one has yet to really be discovered. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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