Dear Sarah: Letters Home from a Soldier of the Iron Brigade
AUTHOR: John Pardington, ed. by C.P. Lassen
APPEAL: These are the personal letters of a corporal to his wife spanning the period from Antietam to Gettysburg; they provide a ground-level view of events underpinned by a melancholy homesickness.
QUOTES: "Sunday Oct. 5 1862, Frederick Maryland Dear Wife Not feeling well enough to go to meeting today I thought I would sit dowm and write to the loved one at home. For I feel quite miserable this morning that I can hardly write. So you will excuse dear Sarah all mistakes and scribling. We went down to the Nicromancy River yesterday and washed all our clothes, and that is only what we have on our Backs so we had to sit naked for about 2 or 3 hours in the sun till our things dried. I think that what made me sick today we were called away from our old camp ground in such a hurry that we had to leave everything behind even my housewife and everything. We have not even a change of clothes with us and I do not think we will ever see them again till after the war. Dear Sarah I saw Old Father Abe Lincoln yesterday. He passed through here. He has been visiting the Army of the Potomic. Dear Sarah when you see his picture you see him. He is a very tall man and looks very old and careworn. He Bowed very Politely to us."
PRO: A touching collection issued with associated sketches, maps and even doodles. An appendix lists all original members of Pardington's Michigan infantry regiment.	CON: We want to know much more about Pardington, his wife and child both before and after the war than is provided here. Also, letters should have been edited for repitition.

PRICE: $24.95	PAGES: 182	MAPS: Y	PICTURES: Y
NOTES: Y	INTRO: Y	APPX: Y	BIBLIO: N
FORMAT: HB	RDNG LVL: L	PRINT SIZE: S-M	GENRE: LETTERS
PUBLISHER: INDIANA UNI. PRESS			YEAR: 1999

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