Journals of a Southern Gentleman (Part2)

a history project.

Dear Journal

 

May 8th 1864

 

It’s hotter then a roaring flame in Virginia today. We met the enemy in large field today an attacked for hours. I couldn’t bare to face anyway but forward because to the sides of me men, good, honest, religious, men falling at the mercy of the Yankee’s bullets.

 

My buddy Patrick and I sat together for a long time after the finished. Patrick has a wife and three kids in his home of South Carolina, a girl named Elizabeth, a boy named Gregory, and a nearly new born baby boy named Collin.

 

I told him about my Annabelle’s  crazy notion about knowing that our unborn baby is a girl. However apparently Patrick’s wife Martha predicted the sex of each and every of their one of their children and was right every time.

Sincerely,
Rory McFinnigan

 

 

Reviews

[Allie]

This seems so real. It saddens me but I yearn to know whether this man will make it home or not.

[TL Boehm]

This is a great premise and mechanism for a larger collection of work, perhaps a novel. Nicely penned.

[Jake@jake]

I'm liking the epistolaration! You should keep these up.