Charlotte's Boys

A moving collection of Civil War letters that reveals the sorrows and struggles endured by a mother in Savannah, Georgia and her three sons in battle. One of the most complete collections of Civil War correspondence to appear in print, Charlotte’s Boys recounts the fate of Charlotte Branch, her three sons, and their extended family and friends from 1861 through 1866. John, Sanford, and Hamilton Branch’s enlistment in the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Savannah’s militia, left their mother in Georgia