Charles Minor Blackford was a Virginia aristocrat who fought for the Confederacy asmuch out of obligation to his class and region as for political reasons. Letters from Lee s Army presents the correspondence between Captain Blackford and his wife, Susan Leigh Blackford, during the war. While Captain Blackford writes of the rigors of campaigning the dramatically bad food, the constant dysentery, the cold and wet we see the stoic Susan Blackford gradually relying less and less on her husband to make decisions. During the course of the war Susan Blackford lost her home, three children,...