The Civil War

About the Book

This book documents his wartime life from the letters he wrote to his family during that period. The nearly 150 year old, hand-written letters are now with the Phelps Community Historical Society in Phelps, New York, and Elizabeth King’s typewritten copies of them are with the Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This book presents all this material, without editorial comment. Selden Partridge McCabe, Jr. June 2009

About the Author

Bonnie-Jane McCabe (now Mason) ‘lived’ this book. She wrote these letters to her family during one exciting year in her young life. Years later, she started the book, collected the letters, copied them to her computer, and organized her book in her computer. It always needed “just one more editing pass to make sure it’s error-free.” Before she was finished, a disastrous computer-crash appeared to her, to have ended her book project. This version, published from a recently rediscovered, early paper ‘preview’ draft, is my gift to Bonnie, my daughter. Prepared for publication by: Selden P. McCabe, Jr. 2009