Would like to read the letter as I had also wondered how the folks back home felt about the change of sides. As the mother of two former marines, I would be relieved if my sons chose any honorable solution that would free them from a prison camp such as my ancestor was in at Rock Isl.

Coming toward the end of the war, I would imagine the people back home were beginning to face reality and this would have just been one more reality added to the accumulating losses of the Confederacy faced.

I've ordered Brown's book on Galvanized Yankees and would be interested in any other publications you or any other posters here know of on this topic.

Glenda