(Courtesy of the Hill Family) Everitt Hill was a, single, young soldier from Valentia, Ontario who trained with the Third Anti-Tank Regiment. His letters home draw a picture of Hill's long years ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers ... fact that in my humble opinion deserves attention. A letter was this day received from a private in the One ...

Because letters home were often censored, families and friends of soldiers were often unaware of their loved-ones' locations and duties. Nevertheless, soldiers' words relay the many emotions ...

that the family kept and read them for a Sunday treat during more than a century after the old soldier’s death (he contracted leprosy in Greece). In 1949 the letters came by chance to the eye of ...

Letters written by an American soldier killed in Vietnam in 1969 were ... traveled on his own by plane and train to his new home in Columbia, S.C., Cannon said. Before enlisting, Major League ...

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2019. Pp. xvi, 302. Illus., maps, appends, notes, biblio., index. $26.50 paper. ISBN: 0809337630 Soldiers' Letters and Letter Writing in Civil War ...