Over 100,000,000 copies in circulation already, download your free copy now. Though it's easy to blame the internet and telephone (cell phones in particular), I'm often curious if the culprit is not, more specifically, a lack of wonder itself. How gladly would I wash out with my tears every little spot upon your happiness, and struggle with all the misfortune of this world, to shield you and my children from harm. But, O Sarah! As for my little boys, they will grow as I have done, and never know a father’s love and care. How thoughtless and foolish I have oftentimes been! Sullivan Ballou – July 14, 1861 (Civil War) Sullivan Ballou wrote to his wife Sarah just one week before he and 27 of his close comrades and 4000 Americans in all would die in the battle at “First Manassas”. Remember it vividly from Burns' docu. And hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when God willing, we might still have lived and loved together and seen our sons grow up to honorable manhood around us. Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me irresistibly on with all these chains to the battlefield. A week before the battle of Bull Run, Sullivan Ballou wrote a letter to his wife. The last letter from Major Sullivan Ballou, written to his wife leading up to the battle at First Bull Run.

The memories of the blissful moments I have spent with you come creeping over me, and I feel most gratified to God and to you that I have enjoyed them so long. And I am willing — perfectly willing — to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this Government, and to pay that debt.

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Nobody will ever top Sullivan Ballou's. Lest I should not be able to write you again, I feel impelled to write lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more. Headquarters, Camp Clark Washington, D.C., July 14, 1861. The Wowhead Client is a little application we use to keep our database up to date, and to provide you with some nifty extra functionality on the website! But it's far from a waste to watch the whole six minutes. Wow, I knew instantly what this was about without clicking on the links or reading other comments. My Very Dear Wife: Indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days, perhaps to-morrow. Newer », This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments. MetaFilter is a weblog that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. Come to me, and lead thither my children. A pure love of my country and of the principles have often advocated before the people and “the name of honor that I love more than I fear death” have called upon me, and I have obeyed. 29.04.2012 - Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. I like the version of this letter parodied in. Sullivan Ballou wrote to his wife Sarah just one week before he and 27 of his close comrades and 4000 Americans in all would die in the battle at “First Manassas”. But, my dear wife, when I know that with my own joys I lay down nearly all of yours, and replace them in this life with cares and sorrows — when, after having eaten for long years the bitter fruit of orphanage myself, I must offer it as their only sustenance to my dear little children — is it weak or dishonorable, while the banner of my purpose floats calmly and proudly in the breeze, that my unbounded love for you, my darling wife and children, should struggle in fierce, though useless, contest with my love of country?

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