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Several years ago, I found a cache of documents in a dumpster formerly belonging to a strange family with a fondness for autobiographical writing. This volume contains a number of undated letters written during the U.S. Civil War by J.J. Hippolhite, a Union soldier, to a handful of animals on his family’s small yet densely-populated Indiana farm. The letters have been grouped and ordered within general categories where possible and left in a jumbled mess where necessary. They have also been heavily edited for ease of reading, overall clarity, punctuation, completeness, spelling, length, tone, continuity, and varied vocabulary.
~ Adam D. Rice, 2019
