When soldiers fight away from home, they leave behind non-combatants – mothers, fathers, siblings, and friends. Some friends were young women with whom the soldier-boys (and don’t forget that most of them were exactly that) had grown up. Today’s post concerns one young woman soldiers corresponded with, and what those letters tell us not only about them…
It Came from the Archives: A Girl the Wildcats left behind

Two of the Tallassee boys who answered the call in World War I, Willie Pierce, left, and Loman Ballard.