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Historical Essay

Lovers Unknowingly Write at the Same Moment

A Wisconsin Civil War Story
On July 4, 1863, Mary Gates writes to her fiancé, Colonel Rufus Dawes of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry, as he turns 25 years old during Battle of Gettysburg

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