Download or read book Letters to Amanda written by Marion Hill Fitzpatrick and published by Civil War Georgia. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He left no doubt of the central role religion played in the lives of countless mid-19th-century Americans, as well as the inestimable importance of home and family. In short, this testimony does more than help us, at a distance of more than a century and a third, understand the day-to-day process by which soldiers went about the business of living and campaigning. It also illuminates the broader context of the world in which the Fitzpatricks and millions of other Civil War-era Americans lived.