Sullivan Ballou ✓

(1829–1861) lawyer United States

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Sullivan Ballou (1829–1861) was a United States lawyer.

About Sullivan Ballou

Sullivan Ballou was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island who served as a Union Army officer during the American Civil War. He is remembered for an eloquent letter he wrote to his wife Sarah a week before he was mortally wounded in the First Battle of Bull Run.

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[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break... Bind
I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not falter. I know… American

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