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You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

What if I told you that you could go back in time and actually read the correspondence of Civil War

soldiers, not the officers, but the everyday

soldiers. What might that tell us about our nation at another really divided time?

There's an incredibly cool new collection of thousands of letters from everyday Civil War

Soldiers, it's online and it's free. Linguist Michael Ellis and Michael Montgomery and historian Stephen Barry have put together a new archive online and it's called private voices.

And what's really special about all these letters from Civil War soldiers is that it's from guys who wrote by ear, that is they

were untrained in spelling or punctuation or capitalization, so sometimes it's hard to read them,

but you can sound them out.

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