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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8777314" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Finished &quot;Life and Letters of General W.H.L. Wallace&quot; from 1909 by his daughter Isabel.&nbsp; I'd never read a book like it before (collected letters for someone) and am glad I did.Wallace was the first commander of the Illinois 11th Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, and won renown at Fort Donelson and the defense of the Hornets' Nest at Pittsburgh Landing/Shiloh.&nbsp;Starting before the war years, the book has letters and tidbits&nbsp; beginning with his early life, including: his choice to either practice law with Lincoln or with the man who would become his father in law;&nbsp; the Mexican-American war; things on Illinois and national politics including the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the various political parties; Lincoln's inauguration; and abolition and casual racism.&nbsp; It then transitions to the start of secession and the war and the view of the common people and disorganization of the North.&nbsp; From their it goes to the war in Southern Illinois, Eastern Missouri, and Western Tennessee.Throughout there are letters between Wallace and his wife, and the end is pretty heart rending.More on Wallace, the Illinois 11th, and its other commanders such as Ransom, Nevius, and Coates is in Jim Huffstodt's &quot;Hard Dying Men&quot;.&nbsp; (Which I first picked up because my great-... uncle's diary is quoted in it).Now back to the Maltese Falcon (which isn't doing it anywhere as much for me as the movie did).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 8777314, member: 6701124"] Finished "Life and Letters of General W.H.L. Wallace" from 1909 by his daughter Isabel. I'd never read a book like it before (collected letters for someone) and am glad I did. Wallace was the first commander of the Illinois 11th Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, and won renown at Fort Donelson and the defense of the Hornets' Nest at Pittsburgh Landing/Shiloh. Starting before the war years, the book has letters and tidbits beginning with his early life, including: his choice to either practice law with Lincoln or with the man who would become his father in law; the Mexican-American war; things on Illinois and national politics including the Lincoln-Douglas debates and the various political parties; Lincoln's inauguration; and abolition and casual racism. It then transitions to the start of secession and the war and the view of the common people and disorganization of the North. From their it goes to the war in Southern Illinois, Eastern Missouri, and Western Tennessee. Throughout there are letters between Wallace and his wife, and the end is pretty heart rending. More on Wallace, the Illinois 11th, and its other commanders such as Ransom, Nevius, and Coates is in Jim Huffstodt's "Hard Dying Men". (Which I first picked up because my great-... uncle's diary is quoted in it). Now back to the Maltese Falcon (which isn't doing it anywhere as much for me as the movie did). [/QUOTE]

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