Excerpt from Footfalls of Loyalty
This work has been compiled to save to history the purest sentiments of loyalty ever uttered and to raise something for the relief funds of the G.A. R., a large share of the sale being devoted to such use. If our purpose meets with approval we shall continue to collect war letters and diaries with this end in view.
These letters came from the heart and must go to the heart of him who fought on the same ground in the same way, inspired by the same love for home and country, as well as to those who hold them in patriotic reverence. Libby"s Bright Side shows what brave men did to forget the misery that surrounded and crushed them, when to have foresworn their defense of the old flag would have given them the best that rebeldom afforded. And now when the limbs crippled by prison gangrene or the more merciful shell are ordered to "leave" to give place to the old prison guard and flag traducer, and when the stars and bars are waved over the ground once covered by the "march to the sea," seems a most fitting time to bring these loyal mementoes to the light.
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