The Sound of Distant Drums
Veteran's Voices from the Heartland 1861-2003
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THE SOUND OF DISTANT DRUMS CIVIL WAR Nancy Barnett Letters ( in response to a “Dear John letter.” Spelling is as it was in the original letter. (Approximately June 1864,, Editor note) Miss Barnett I resived your leter baren the date of May the 28. After taken the contents in considerations I thought I would drop you a note. I have knever hopedt your love in my life and I always Respect you but your manner toward me in the last 8 months has been Rather on becoming of A lady. My intensen was good towards you. I intended to perpose to you for your hand when I come home. But when I first met you I saw at onse it was usless to think of sutch A thing and ther fore I abanded the idey. I think it is not worth my while to go father on this. You say that you don’t think that I am worthy of your love. So I will bid your Adierre for ever onless you can explain things more clearly then they ar now at this presant time Mr. D. C. Baker it is hard but I think it is ……. Good. By. fare. One I have on Request to make of you and I hope you will bee so kind to granted it. Pleas send my minatur and Ring to mee and distroy those leters that you Resived of mee and I will bee very mutch oblige to you. Formats Book Details The Heroes of this book are the veterans and their families whose stories span 140+ years in protecting our country. Their stories are history, filled with the mundane events of service life, the fear of combat, the horror that front line infantrymen faced, the tension that air crews and pilots faced, the vastness of the Pacific that confronted sailors, the strain on the mind and bodies of Prisoners of War, and humor viewed through the eyes of the veterans. As you read their stories listen to the voices of these veterans and picture in your mind an aging color guard from a local veteran’s post; visualize them marching into the mist, to the sound of distant drums and the muted bugle’s call, along with the men and women who have gone before. There are no large marble memorials to these individual veterans; their monument is a free Chuck Knox developed a love of history, hearing from his mother stories about a Rebel great grandmother from His interest in history grew. He knew veterans from the Spanish-American War, World War I and II. He could see the stories they had to tell were slipping away each year. After his retirement from the This is the third in a series of veteran’s stories. His first work, The Battle Cry of Freedom, Civil War Veterans, was followed by Johnnie Has Gone for a Soldier; The Last Good War, Douglas County, Illinois newspaper stories 1941-45. His third work is Johnnie Has Gone for a Soldier; The Sound of Distant Drums. This book, The Sound of Distant Drums is an abridged version of the original presenting the best of personal interviews, letters, diaries, and family stories of veterans from the heartland from 1862 through 2003.
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