The Folly and the Madness: The Civil War Letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry

by Thomas W. Cutrer

With a closeness perhaps unique to siblings orphaned young, Orlando and Artimisia "Missie" Palmer exchanged intimate letters throughout their lives. These letters (interspersed with additional letters from Oliver Kennedy, the Palmers' first cousin) offer a clear and entertaining window into the life and times of a junior Confederate officer serving in the Western Theater of the Civil War.

Though he initially felt Americans would see "the folly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621908410
• ISBN13: 9781621908418
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.9"