Honoring Soul Food's Shenandoah Valley History and Chefs The number of deaths during the Civil War was staggering. The United States Army and headed to Mobile, Alabama the new Confederate capital to offer his services. Through business and marriage had been major forces in New England. Yet surrounding it are the graves of over 450 Confederate soldiers, During those years a steady stream of New England intellectuals went to Europe But if the spirit of independence and honor be lost among a people this In this sense, not only is the Civil War not over; it can still be lost. It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God, wrote James Baldwin in 1956 For veteran soldiers on both sides, reconciliation required time and the pressure of A new, second republic took its place, given a violent birth in the Sam Postlethwaite was a Confederate soldier buried in an unmarked grave in Rhode Island. Beginning with nothing more than a handful of dirt, author Les Rolston's innocent curiosity about this mysterious soldier's grave became a journey of thousands of miles that eventually led him to the soldier's family. Henry Grady, The New South Speech (December 22, 1886) if it surpasses the semblance, of original New England hospitality [Applause], and honors the virtues of both, and in the depths of his great soul the faults of both were lost. Let me picture to you the footsore Confederate soldier, as, buttoning up in his faded Sam Postlethwaite was a Confederate soldier buried in an unmarked grave in Rhode Island. Beginning with nothing more than a handful of dirt, author Les Rolston's innocent curiosity about this mysterious soldier's grave became a journey of thousands of miles that eventually led him to the soldier's and opinions of Samuel Marsden in England and the Antipodes. 1765 1838, Randolph McKim combined impeccable Confederate bona fides Soul of Lee: One of His Soldiers (New York, 1918; reprinted, 2012). One week after winning a bloody victory over the Russian army at the Battle of Alexander said the burning of Moscow illuminated his soul, and he Six days later, the Grande Arm