The William H. Grady Letters Collection in the North Carolina State Archives contains five letters written by Grady during the Civil War. The letter below, written from a Richmond hospital, was written with Grady’s typical tongue-in-cheek style, but it also recounted the tragic deaths of some of the men he knew. All five letters (transcripts… Continue reading Has My Sweetheart Been Informed that I Have a Yankee Ball in My Unmentionables?