Dearest Mama: The Lost Letters of a Fallen Soldier and the Stories of Those He Left Behind (William S. Walker - DLM) Study of Civil War played an important strategic role

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Reworking the traditional “Alamo” framework

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Edited by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes and Chris Mackowski

Dearest Mama: The Lost Letters of a Fallen Soldier and the Stories of Those He Left Behind (William S. Walker - DLM) Study of Civil War played an important strategic roleby William S. Walker A cache of letters leads to a journey of discovery that reveals the long and lasting consequences of war William S. Walker never knew his uncle, Fletcher "Bud" Blanton. Blanton had been killed fighting in Europe during World War II before Walker was born. Walker had heard stories about Bud, but for most of his life his uncle had existed only as a faded memory. That path changed when Walker opened a dusty cabinet forgotten in his