![]() ![]() how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution. “I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. He speaks tenderly to her of his undying love, of “the memories of blissful moments I have spent with you.” Ballou mourns the thought that he must give up “the hope of future years, when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and seen our sons grown up to honorable manhood around us.” Yet in spite of his love the battle calls and he cannot turn from it. He writes to his wife on the eve of the Battle of Bull Run, a battle he senses will be his last. “I have in my files a copy of a letter written by Major Sullivan Ballou, a Union officer in the 2nd Rhode Island.
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