A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie
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Joseph Benjamin Polley
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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 kept him so well-advised of all that was transpiring in Texas, and were so friendly, entertaining, and altogether "charming," that, without leave or license, he substituted that adjective for the conventional "Miss" to which she was entitled. (Summary by J. B. Polley) (8 hr 37 min)
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I'm only through chapter 5 so far, but I'm loving this already. The writer of these letters has a very dry humor. When he's describing carnage and battle (quite sanitized, since he's writing to a lady), one cannot help but laugh over some of his witticisms. Giving it 4 stars for now, but I may come back and up that when I'm finished listening. The two readers I've heard so far are great, although one of them has some fairly long pauses in strange places, which gives the recording a slightly off-kilter feel. But otherwise his reading is excellent.