Yours Till Death: Civil War Letters of John W. Cotton (Library of Alabama Classics)

"These letters from a yeoman farmer in the Confederate Army to his wife in Coosa County, Alabama, will be of interest to historians not only for the light shed upon the life of the Confederate soldier, but also for frequent allusions to rural life and the operation of the farm in Cotton's absence. He enlisted at Pinckneyville, Alabama, on April 1, 1862, and was paroled at Talladega on May 25, 1865. During the intervening years he saw action in Tennessee and Kentucky, in the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, briefly again in Tennessee, then in Georgia against the forces of Sherman, moving finally into South Carolina.... These letters constitute an authentic record of a typical Confederate soldier's experience," ---Journal of Southern HistoryJohn Cotton is the author of 'Yours Till Death: Civil War Letters of John W. Cotton (Library of Alabama Classics)', published 2003 under ISBN 9780817350437 and ISBN 0817350438.