Weep Not for Me, Dear Mother

by Eli Pinson Landers and Elizabeth Whitley Roberson

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"Ms. Roberson brings to life Eli Landers and his family in this truly outstanding book."
-Civil War Courier

"I expect to be a man of honor to our country at the risk to my life."
-Pvt. Eli Pinson Landers, letter dated September 24, 1863,
camp near Chattanooga, TN

When her neighbor...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565543890
• ISBN13: 9781565543898
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

A Treasure Literally Saved From the Trashbin

Driving down an alley a stack of letters was spotted tied up with ribbons and sitting on the trashcan awaiting what would have been a tragic fate. Those letters were retrieved, discovered to be the correspondence of a Gwinnet Co. Georgia teenager to his mother during the War Between the States. Here they have been reprinted with all the unvarnished charm of a 19th century American soldier caught up in an epic struggle. To put an exclaimation point on this unlikely story a photo was later discovered which proved to be our young hero. Alternatively playful, funny, melancholy and patriotic the collection suddenly ends. Like 620,000 others he never returned. While in print for sometime this one has yet to really be discovered. I cannot recommend it highly enough.