Dearest Mama: The Lost Letters of a Fallen Soldier and the Stories of Those He Left Behind (William S. Walker - DLM) Section - Abraham Lincoln Edna Greene Medford focuses on

Edna Greene Medford focuses on the African American experience in the final year of the war

Harold Holzer

wounded and missing

Troy Anacona (Editor)

and after the assassination these same forces used all of their resources to attempt his escape

Dearest Mama: The Lost Letters of a Fallen Soldier and the Stories of Those He Left Behind (William S. Walker - DLM) Section - Abraham Lincoln Edna Greene Medford focuses onby 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