Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
Dear American #1, The Diary of Emma Simpson
Fourteen year old Emma Simpson used reading as a diversion from the horrible war. Like Jane Eyre, her life "seems to become more complicated with every turn in the road." Her brother was killed in the war, her father is off fighting for the noble Confederate cause, and her mother died of illness. She corresponds with Tally, a young eighteen year old she met just before he, too, went off to war. This is an excellent depiction of horrors of war from a Southern point of view.
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