Emma Randolph, a young woman not yet twenty, wrote poignant letters to
her distant cousin, Private Walter G. Dunn of the 11th New Jersey
Infantry, as he lay in a crowded, filthy hospital ward during the Civil
War after suffering the carnage of the battle of Chancellorsville.
There, barely recovered, he aided overworked surgeons when the
Gettysburg wounded poured into the city, and regularly took up his pen.
Their correspondence related everyday events that became history.