My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Paul Taylor - DLM) souvenirs and the momentous transformations of

and the momentous transformations of nineteenth-century America

their passionate conflict of words and ideas has been overshadowed by their opposition to Abraham Lincoln

Propelled by the momentum of that supreme moment

A tale of history played out on a human scale in the grand Shaara tradition

“I have no reason

My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Paul Taylor - DLM) souvenirs and the momentous transformations ofby Paul Taylor (Editor), Earl J. Hess (Foreword) More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, West Point engineer and Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe (18321895) remains one of the Unions most unsung heroes. He served the Union in uniform from day one of the conflict until the Confederate surrender in North Carolina in late April 1865, and he used his unparalleled ability to predict Confederate movements to lead multiple successful