My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Paul Taylor - DLM) Section- Historical fiction down and across our war-torn

down and across our war-torn country

When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840

whose early-war success melted away with his disastrous loss at Fredericksburg in late 1862 at the head of the Army of the Potomac

Lincoln faced the loss of his first love—and a descent into suicidal despair

My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife Eleanor (Paul Taylor - DLM) Section- Historical fiction down and across our war-tornby Paul Taylor (Editor), Earl J. Hess (Foreword) More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, West Point engineer and Brevet Brigadier General Orlando M. Poe (18321895) remains one of the Unions most unsung heroes. He served the Union in uniform from day one of the conflict until the Confederate surrender in North Carolina in late April 1865, and he used his unparalleled ability to predict Confederate movements to lead multiple successful