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Article: Eli Landers: letters of a Confederate soldier.(American Civil War)
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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ELIZABETH WHITLEY ROBERSON'S Weep Not for Me, Dear Mother (1) chronicles the life of Eli Landers through the first two years of the American Civil War. Using primary documents--letters from a young Confederate soldier to his mother and sister--students learning about the Civil War can begin to think about war in personal terms. Examining the content, tone, and implications of the letters makes students aware of the personal costs of that war and gives them an emotional understanding that they could not find in most other sources.
Landers's actual letters were fortunately recovered by an unknown woman who found them in garbage strewn along the side of the street. ...